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Something Curious - Animated Music Video
"Something Curious" was a great example of working with what you got. I am not a trained or experienced animator by any means. However, I created this piece with tools I had at my disposal. In this case it was…
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Persistence
“…drops wear down the stone not by strength but by constant falling.”
The Study of Counterpoint from Johann Joseph Fux’s Gradus Ad Parnassum Translated and Edited by Alfred Mann (p.48)
For anyone who has dabbled in European counterpoint, you may…
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Getting Back On The Horse
So I had a goal when I started this blog…
That goal was to write and share a new post every week. For the first couple of months, I managed to roughly limp along with that schedule, but inevitably, I…
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Changing Perspective
So an interesting thing happened this weekend. To explain it, I will need to provide a little bit of context. My partner and I live in a relatively small apartment with lots of windows. This includes two big windows in…
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The Fear Of Failure
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” - Paul Coelho
This one struck me. It’s funny how you can hear the same idea come up in many different ways before it…
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Sans Expectation
There is often an expectation that great work comes only from deep intention. That it is birthed from the mind of the artist, fully formed. Picture the romantic image of Mozart, writing out his scores with no eraser marks. I…
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On Gratitude
In all your musical years, when have you ever truthfully said "thank you" to your bass guitar? — Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson
It is easy to forget that gratitude, just like music and other arts or trades…
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