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Declares a devotion of gratitude with patient attention;

to observe, learn of, and celebrate every participants’ individual skills, talents, abilities and unique voice in their creative expression though the art form;

to stay out of the way, in a commitment to honor the freedom that only the art form inculcates;

to help participants recognize that the beauty in the creative act is experienced through their own relationship with the discipline of the art form and is available for a lifetime of joy, perseverance, work, manifestation, and development;

to be sensitive, as this relationship will change over time as they change and grow over time;

to model that fulfillment is in the dedicated work of making, not in success, approval, accolades, or fame;

to live in gratitude for the ability and opportunity to be made in the making of artifacts, as this is the humble source of all genuine artistic expression.

– JC Heisler

One cannot judge a work of art, for what it is not.

Where is the artist to go?

Deeper into Self, the Art Form, Nature, and the Mysterious Trials of Wonder.

– JC Heisler

1. Can you hear yourself, hearing your own music, in your own imagination?

2. Has this musical encounter highlighted your unique technical difficulties and challenges that you have not yet solved?

3. Do you lack clarity and literacy in your understanding of this musical situation?

4. Is your presumptuous ego preventing you from being honest with yourself?

5. Do you fear not being able to do, what you have not been able to understand?

6. Have you spent enough time training consistently?

7. Are you impatient?  Are you distrustful?  Do you lack conviction?

8. Are you not hearing because you are not listening in order to hear?  Is this preventing you from meaning?

9. Are you aware of the many opportunities to develop and explore your own artistic curiosities?

10. Can you define your own work?  Can you fully commit and perform something you believe in?

– JC Heisler

Perhaps, every inception of the Creative Act, by its very nature, Is Original.  Perhaps, there is never a performance where one might re-create anything.

The Performance Act is Pure Creation of the Moment, within the Moment; no matter Ability, Intention, Execution or Cognition.

Performance is the ability to Live with Absolute Attention in the Present Moment; to Be Made, By an Act of the Creative Will, Unconditionally.

The Communication of Feeling in Sound through written music is merely a catalogue, a documentation of a particular moment of creation that has already been emoted. The truest ambition of the Performance Artist is to have Their Own Aesthetic be Entirely Open to the Present Moment of Performance through Study, Preparation, and Practice so as to Become an Audience to the previously emoted written music.

The intention to be original is a distraction of the Genuine Trueness of the Absolute Present Moment.  It is a selfish and commercial redundancy.

Originality is Inevitable; Genuine and Honest Expression of Intelligible Aesthetic is the  challenging process and never guaranteed. 

The essence of every picture is its frame; the essence of every performance is the present.

You are the Present Moment. You are Enough.

– JC Heisler

98% of teaching is waiting…patiently…

…to observe when, how, and why the student becomes socially, emotionally, and psychologically self aware within “This Moment of the Art Form”.

You will know what to say when you decided to Be Quiet.

A “teacher” must be Humble and Articulate enough to be re-made in the Present Moment of the Art Form.

– JC Heisler

An essential aim of Education is to provide the pupil with the freedom and safety to process mistakes and misunderstandings without shame.  

The teacher’s role (in so much as teaching can be practiced) is to share a wholehearted “living experience” (as opposed to inert information) with the pupil so as to guide, encourage, and clarify the processes of self education, without fear.  

The pupil’s fundamental experience must be rooted in a pure discipline that fosters and emphasizes a robust autonomy exercised through the instinctual skills of observation, organization, and inference; in acceptance and awareness of their own developing thoughts, curiosities, feelings, skills, and manifestations in the making of artifacts; in cooperation to the Good service of their many Life Relationships.

– JC Heisler

I am interested in aromas and tastes; the harmony of nature and change; old stories and poetry; mobiles and paintings; melodic dance and cadence rhythms.

I vow to be completely arrested by the shared present moment so as to be led by intuition, together.

– JC Heisler

Your:

Presence of Attention – Objectifies Developing Coordinations.

Impartial Scrutiny – is Creative Liberation.

Vivid Aural-Imagination – Manifests Aesthetic.

– JC Heisler

As light waves travel, absorbed and reflected in constant motion, illuminating our perceptions all around us; so too are sound waves moving among us and through us, engaging and affecting our lives in sympathetic resonance. 

If we learn to listen, we may be open to hearing with deeper humility, dignity, integrity, clarity, and elegance.

– JC Heisler