Category: Music
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2024 And I’m Still Not Quitting
“I want to be a scientist when I grow up.” I said with all the enthusiasm of a six year old. “Scientists are geniuses,” was the reply. “You’re smart, but you’re not a genius.” And so ended my desire to be a scientist. I was in music college where I was attending as a vocal…
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Consumption Versus Creation: The Ongoing Battle
Consume Less, Create More A couple months ago I was asked to do an interview for the Why Is That Important podcast to discuss Therapeutic Creativity. I had great time talking with hosts Joe Wenger and Andrew Martin about how creativity can be used as a means of personal therapy whether that creativity take the…
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Why Taylor Swift’s Return To Spotify Was Inevitable
Where It All Began When Taylor Swift announced in 2014 that she was pulling all of her music from streaming services I had mixed feelings about it. On the one hand it made sense. Streaming revenues in and of themselves in 2014 were not great and by making a big public spectacle out of her…
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New Music Tools
For Christmas some nice folks had given me a $100 gift card to Amazon and I knew right away what I wanted to use it for: A pair of studio monitors. If you aren’t familiar with what studio monitors are, they are essentially just speakers that are intended to produce a flat “untainted” sound. This…
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Where Desire Meets Ambition
I’m just a few weeks late with my New Year post but I’m sure you’ll forgive that compared to the six months that have gone by since I posted anything new on here. My last post way back in July mentioned that I was going to be moving and that move finally happened in late…
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Music, Moving, and Self-reliance
Things are about to change drastically in my life. It’s a good change I believe, though I’m sure that there will be something of an adjustment period. The change I speak of is that my family and I are moving about 60 miles away due to a job promotion. The promotion is a good thing…