Bob Wiseman

The old teacher said the end goal is to stay involved with improvising and get more deeply into it or to put it another way the ending of an improvisation […]

Last year there was a young man in the songwriting class that didn’t know what to do with the journal request. They were asked to keep daily journals to help […]

On a roll last few nights with fantastic dreams. In the latest I was positioned to meet Bach but Bach was in the form of some type of underwater creature […]

maybe they follow maybe they react with non sequiturs. more and more, taking the musical experience of improvising and re-contextualizing it in non musical life. no difference. the art of […]

Am trying to plan out my songwriting course, specifically how to attempt teaching it online. In one exercise, I asked the students last year to take 20 minutes and eavesdrop […]

Idea for a documentary. Interviewing musicians like Great Bob Scott, who’s drumming virtuosity I find staggering, and inquiring about their conscious mind. What it is doing when they play because […]

An older artist told me she has never understood music and spends a lot of time trying to make sense out of it. She watches videos on great musicians and […]

If you put a fancy piece of music in front of a musician they can’t just play it and all its intricacies immediately. It has to be studied, practised and […]

Watched a squirrel scurry high up an old tree with some leaves in its mouth. It reached the drey it was working on. The squirrel instinctually knows how to build […]

Pàrtly some ride roller coasters for the same reason some take the stage. Puts you in the now. Very unlikely you daydream when everyone is screaming over the speed you […]