29 Mar
Or since they are an entity of millions of people that you can’t knock out, metaphorically tell them to fuck off. This is going to sound like a manifesto, probably, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time and was too afraid to post it. Hence the long silence. Which is exactly [...]
1 Feb
The problem with musicians is they don’t conceive of what they could be worth. We let others determine our value for us ($1 on iTunes, 30¢ a play on Spotify, or our fans on Bandcamp choose what to pay, including zero). Not that any of us are worth zero dollars and zero cents. Nor are [...]
25 Dec
Imagine along comes a fan who gives you a nickel to sit and listen to your song. He enjoys it without saying anything and walks away. He might come back later today or tomorrow, maybe even with a friend or two, they would each give you another nickel and listen to your song again (silently, [...]
4 Dec
I started making music when I was 9 or 10. Back then, nobody would have called it ‘making music,’ because all I did was cut together different parts of a song and loop them by pausing and un-pausing the record button on my boombox. Nowadays, that is music. It’s sort of been that way for [...]
10 Oct
I have a theory about albums that they are the enemy of modern dance music. Why? Let’s start with reasons on why albums are good in general / have existed for so long… 1. Biggest reason: Sell-ability. People like packages, they like everything wrapped up together, they wanna get it all when they’re really into [...]
I'm a multipotentialite living in Tokyo and embracing the idea of "process" in all of my skills, helping people develop a process for their work, while embracing the theme of "collaboration" or as I call it "co-inspiration"
How do people come up with this? Think about where songs start from. How often do you say to yourself “I’m going to make a song that goes like this…” and then have it turn out that way? More often than not, don’t creative works just kind of materialize? The best ones? And the best [...]
“I’ll whip up some dip if you wanna cut the carrots.” “Good. You got nuts?” “I got mixed nuts.” “Great. And what is this, cheese?” “Yeah. Oh, let’s go get a bottle of something, too.” “Nice, should we get two?” “I don’t know, do we need two? Let’s do one and then another when we’ve [...]
Would be a quote from me if I were addressing a bunch of young artistic types in an auditorium somewhere… But really, that is how I feel. That is what I keep telling myself. I don’t want to limit myself of confuse things by choosing a medium. I started NaNoWriMo basically thinking “I am going to [...]
The first spirit-crushing episode of college: When I was a freshman in college on the west coast, after half a year of not taking my class too seriously, the teacher sat me down in an evaluation and suggested I leave school. My professor, Chuck, asked me “What do you want to do? What are [...]
I have a theory about albums that they are the enemy of modern dance music. Why? Let’s start with reasons on why albums are good in general / have existed for so long… 1. Biggest reason: Sell-ability. People like packages, they like everything wrapped up together, they wanna get it all when they’re really into [...]
I'm a multipotentialite living in Tokyo and embracing the idea of "process" in all of my skills, helping people develop a process for their work, while embracing the theme of "collaboration" or as I call it "co-inspiration"
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