May 22, 2019

What do you know you’ll always do, no matter what?

May 21, 2019

Just because you know a thing doesn’t mean you should use that thing automatically in your music. Balance the known thing with unknowns.

May 17, 2019

As composers, when we proceed from wherfe we are and how we are, WHO we are becomes less important. Things we might call ‘identity’ and ‘originality’ emerge from the awareness and acceptance of what we do habitually and aspirationally, not as much from who we think we are or wish we could be. Knowing our habits—knowing how we are—helps us notice how to move to new where’s and how’s.