Musing from Behind the Keyboard
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Brick-and-Mortar Closures and How that Affects the Music Landscape
Change can be a good thing, even if it means that old systems we’ve become accustomed to are no longer available to us. As change happens around us,…
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Preparation, Practice, and Persistence
Preparation makes a world of difference in any field. Focusing on a task for a finite period of time develops familiarity and confidence. Beyond that, repetition is paramount…
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Audience Engagement in Performance Settings
Audience engagement is everything in a performance setting. It’s the job of the performer to transport the listener: the performer emotes their own feelings and experiences through the…
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Accepting AI Music versus Human Music For Metal Archives
Sometimes I wonder if I’ve become stuck in an episode of Star Trek: Next Generation… There’s a lot of discussion about artificial intelligence, or AI, these days. In…
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Music & the Body
Listener affectation based on musical style is a topic I’m fascinated by, and it inspires and informs my work as both performer and composer. This article speaks to…
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Support and Comradery in Music
Though I’m not a sports fan, this story caught my attention. During one of the first-round games in this year’s March Madness college basketball tournament, the University of…
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