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A Guide to Being Creative

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Produce, produce, produce.
Release.
(Involve others.)
Keep the circling mind in check. Do not obsess over an idea: you will kill its magic, temporarily, and maybe forever…
The work is about taming obsessive and destructive tendencies and distilling a certain wholeness of spirit and steadiness of gesture. At times you will feel this so utterly and explicitly [...]

Guitar Tone

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

Guitar tone has played an exceedingly important role in my musical development. When I was a kid, my six-string fixation fostered an appreciation for the harmonic series before I knew there was a harmonic series, improved my Deep Listening skills before I ever read about Pauline Oliveros, and instilled a love of drone and [...]