photo credit: BrainOnFire  Funny, this weekend I did some tremendous work – not to the usual path of righteousness, which is normally bent over graph paper or hell bent on making some vine of counterpoint symmetry work on 8 voices.  Instead, I approached in a way I haven’t done in a while – that [...]

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Exceptionally close weekend with turkey interactions, most likely caused by the fact that we have water and the turkey does not.  Thirst, in any society, breeds friendship (and perhaps bars).   In any case, ms. Turkey came by with her chicks on Saturday, and, as the  temperature broke 103 degrees, I was delighted to welcome her to [...]

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Carefully, I get up to pace,  and at the same time struggle with choices – simple choices such as how to orchestrate this first statement in the opening – an exposition of a main octal set which makes up the work.  And then there was the aforementioned main theme that follows – my indecision on whether to [...]

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I could write a tremendously long post on theatre – the profession and training programs in NYC and here in San Francisco. But I’ll try and let it ride through a number of posts as thoughts come up from time to time in my delium. It’s something I haven’t talked about…so it [...]

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2007 sure came and went so fast. Did I accomplish everything I wanted? Somewhat. Certainly I had a thankful year.
I’m a bit weary from it, though. But I did start to chug some music out which I didn’t think I would have the energy to do, and with newer technique. [...]

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Looking at some of my musical friends on the east coast. it struck me that I’m extremely lucky I’m on the west coast these days, away from the musical pollution of large east coast cities such as Boston or New York where either academia or the large number of cultural interplay forces a sorted condensed [...]

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Went book happy last weekend, as I had used up my bag of psycho-reads, and was still hungry after that awful Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly which was almost a total bust.
in my queue now from Borders:

Mozarts Brain and the Fighter Pilot – by Richard Restak, MD.
A Users Guide to the Brain – by John J [...]

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From Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihali, to quote:
The creative process has traditionally been described as taking five steps.
The first is a period of preparation, becoming immersed, consciously or not, in a set of problematic issues that are interesting and arouse curiosity.
The second phase of the creative process is [...]

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