As I mentioned below, the book is flowing again. A very different form emerged, seemingly out of nowhere, and its working well. The creative process is like that. You wrestle and wrestle with something, give up, and then, when you least expect it, the idea appears.
Many people talk and write about the [...]
To pull together all the material I’ve written here and elsewhere on improvisation, I need to have a clear audience in mind. One thing that’s had me stuck is not knowing for whom I want to write. In the blog version, I’ve been writing primarily to myself and a variety of real and [...]
I am totally blocked! Or I just can’t get into it. Perhaps there’s still some end-of-semester, start-of-summer-concert-series burnout going on.
Oh well, it will start to flow. Meanwhile, I watched a Bobby McFerrin DVD yesterday (how wonderfully inspiring), started Christopher Small’s book Music, Society, Education (I’ve become quite a Small fan over the [...]
Ack.
It’s summer “vacation.” I have two months in which to take the material in this blog (and other things I’ve written) and edit it, revise it, rewrite it, etc., into the book it is meant to be and for which DePauw has given me extra money and some teaching release time over the last [...]
If anyone is still checking this blog, since it’s been so inactive, I’m back and I anticipate I’ll be writing more frequently. It has been very helpful to take some (unplanned) time from writing about improvisation. It’s given me time to think about the book itself, and how it wants to be structured. While in [...]
It’s the end-of-semester crush. The status report on my Faculty Fellowship project was due this past Wednesday, so I was in overdrive working on the draft of my book, writing a number of sections I have yet to post.
I’m off now to a Music for People weekend. Some time for creative insanity. Improvisation [...]
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