Run From The Sun is a journey through our Solar System. You may note that this is branded as a Destructor Creator Destructor (DCD) record instead of fully under my name. Run From The Sun is a different record from my usual and as such has been both a challenge and a joy to write. This…
Cover Painting: detail from Le Soir ou Morphée by Charles Le Brun in Galerie d’Apollon, Musée du Louvre The theme for In Phantasus Cum Morpheus is that of a person in a hospital bed weighed down with morphine* so they are below consciousness but dreaming. I leave it open to the listener to decide the who, where, when, why, etc.…
With Micro done I intended to immerse myself in some instrument design for a while. But life being what it is I was offered a project straight away that yielded a double album with each of us taking a side. Using the time honored tradition of the faster tracks being on side one Peter gets…
Micro is a journey through the world that lies beneath the level we inhabit. These small creatures and their lives form the basis for the world we know. This music was written to the footage Mike Rosecope gave kind permission for me to use from his YouTube videos of the world beneath our sight. The Other…
Like the last album, “Waters Are My Sky” was written with a screensaver in mind. I actually started with the idea of using a fish tank screensaver for the Spaceship: Continuum album but space was what that record was. What you see in the video is Serene Screen’s Marine Aquarium 3.2. It is a fun…
Your job as an Artist is to communicate. So you just want to make a quick noise and become famous, with everyone falling over themselves to view your sex tape on YouTube? That ain’t art it is self-aggrandizement. Sure, it is a thing that many Rock & Pop musicians indulge in a bit to appear…
There are many pundits who write about the music industry. Some of those are “bibles” written to help aspiring artists navigate the seemingly complex game. Now I’m not gonna be much different but I am going to make suggestions that may run counter to what you think and so probably want to reject. Your choice…
Please meet Didi Oviatt. Didi writes and self-publishes books like “Search For Maylee”, “Aggravated Momentum”, “The Stix”, and “New Age Lamians” as well as her own Blog about writing which has some distinct parallels to my own posts. Didi is also a columnist at The Conscious Talk Magazine, an online outlet for diverse intelligent readers.…
This last lesson isn’t a lesson in the obvious way. I won’t be talkin’ at ya like normal. This time I will be letting us all learn from the experience (and choices) of others. We are going to have a discussion with Iron Will a Metal band out of Boston U.S.A. who have very recently let…
If you have been following this Artist Development Course all the way (and I hope you have) you may be wondering when I get to the point where I give you the magic formula for making irresistible Pop hits? When I tell you that if you put all your songs in A#Min with an Augmented 9th…
Last week I asked you some curly questions. I hope you answered them. If you didn’t, my question is why not? I will assume you did for now so those who are moving towards their goals can keep going. Lost In Music I figure there are two types of people when it comes to music;…
I am talking about Finishing when we barely seem to be started. This is deliberate because the way you start out is the way you proceed. If you don’t have a plan to have a record, shows, tour… at the end of this then you will have no direction, become lost and nothing will eventuate.…
