to see how you do it
I moved to Toronto from Winnipeg to study improvisational piano music/ playing with Casey in the early 80s. It was a big deal being 20 in a new city, getting […]
the computer age
In years past, the engineers at Metalworks always knocked me out when I could afford a recording session there. Their knowledge and talent and kindness were so impressive. Once in […]
grover washington jr. not coming to Winnipeg
Got into a heated discussion with someone over discrimination and appropriation. Yelling your view back and forth won’t do nearly as much as trying to position people to experience a […]
loser game strategies
Stan the head of A&R at Sony (known for his non sequiturs) threw his arm around the producer “are we going to go bowling one of these days or what? […]
radicals
There’s this thing in music software called a plug-in. It simulates physical objects like instruments or amplifiers and all the various physical studio effects reverb, delay, distortion. When you select […]
tilt
The brain unable to stop thinking after the body has gone to rest, that’s what the teacher said long ago. Awesome dreaming about relationships that never happen in the non-dream […]
magic
Magic is a great joy. There are two card tricks I know. They are both impressive, never show anyone how to do it. Keeping secret is how magic works. Watched […]
taught by ghosts
There is an app my nieces and daughter and Magali all get a kick out of; I watched them play with at Christmas. Superimposes red lipstick on photos of faces […]
super dave
One time we played on Super Dave Osbourne. I didn’t know he was a joker in the Andy Kaufman tradition. I was surprised when years later I realized who he […]
hannah and the universal laws
Watched two films eerily similar in a way I can’t prove but so it is. One, a documentary about Estonia and their fight to detach themselves from the Soviet Union. […]