2018

Sarah Harmer​ sung on one of my records in the 2000s (theme and variations). The session was inspiring she is very creative and open plus her groovy house was in […]

Had a meeting with CBC friend, possibly doing some segments based on what I’m doing at York – looking at music and power, how songs sometimes make the ruling class […]

Wonder when there will be a Margaret Atwood  or  Salmon Rushdie Filter for writing? A Scorsese filter or Lina Wertmuller plug-in for film treatments? Probably around the corner. I work a […]

Sometimes I’m blown away by someone’s music and that’s a good enough reason to try working with them, this job is about music first. Sometimes I’m not blown away but […]

Musicians seem like birds singing, sounding, listening, responding, jamming. Originally this was written as birds sure seem like musicians, then realized the error.

There was a musician at the college into mystical arts and she said to me there is no I inside you. Every time you say I it is just a […]

While the kid sat slowly playing white keys, realized my mother sat in the same position 4 years earlier  also improvising slowly.  The difference 80 years between the gene pools […]

Something else about sound that confounds me, that animals often make sounds when they sense predators, dogs bark, birds cry, snakes hiss and yet if we were in the woods […]

other acts on the bill who play way longer than was agreed to. . the producer saying they had a technical problem with the take you preferred but fortunately the […]

Not sure what I enjoy more, the time John Cage put blank stave over a fish tank and had the musicians play the the movement of the single fish inside […]