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One cannot rehearse tradition; one observes and LIVES a tradition…or not. Tradition fashions by consequence of its boundaries, extolling awareness upon one’s unique personhood in THIS specific time and space. To create is an indictment, to DARE to DECIDE. It is not to cajole, try, convince, preserve, nor replicate. NO ONE, can stand in for…

Music is a language that we must take seriously. It is the language of the unseen, the language of the intellect, the language of the heart, the invocation of the soul, the choreography of the body, the architecture of the mind, the physics of sonority, the meaning of silence, the movement in all life’s patterns,…

Thich Nhat Hanh adaptation by JC Heisler To perceive always means to perceive some thing. We believe that the object of our perception is outside of the subject. But that is not correct. When we perceive the music, the music is us. When we hear the music, the music is the object of our perception.…

Artists… just take the plunge. Not a soul can go with you, nor follow you: this is precisely why YOU are here. The problems cannot be solved politically, the problems cannot be solved religiously, the problems cannot be solved militarily, the problems cannot be solved scientifically. The problems cannot be solved with the same consciousness…

The Arts are not a business. Entertainment is a business. The Arts survive by way of patronage. This is a completely different commitment to the creation of artifacts and aesthetic. I am not here to entertain. I am here to offer clear, honest, and genuine artistic communication in order to enter into an aesthetic relationship…

The greatest teachers I have had are the ones that knew when they were speaking technically in a way that fostered curiosity, trial and error, and insisted that I think deeply independent; as they were adamant that I was critically aware of my own experiences of playing the instrument. They rarely gave me dogmatic solutions…

In a letter to a friend, he advised: “Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start…

Two monks are arguing about a flag. One says, “The flag is moving.” The other, “The wind is moving.” A third walks by and says, “Not the wind, not the flag; the mind is moving.”

“Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.” – Thomas Merton

“(Practice) does not have to be hard labor. Just allow your body and mind to rest, like an animal in the forest. Don’t struggle. There is no need to attain anything. I am writing a book, but I am not struggling; I am resting also. Please read in a joyful yet restful way.” “Practice in…

In the beginning, the Quality of your Intention Objectifies your Developing Technique. Impartial Observation affords the opportunity to collect data from countless repetitions. Is it easier? Is my Vivid Aural Imagination Coherently Arresting my performance? Once an accurate technique is coordinated, then Practice May Commence. Editions

The body must only respond to the stimuli of the musician’s inner ear. The depth of intent and clarity of expression solely depend on one’s ability to respond to the solitary stimulus that actually matters; that is the creation and manifestation of music from within, before any note is ever played. Therefore developing the inner…

Thinking is the Opposite of Concentration. Deepen Concentration and Awareness. Editions

Did you know the entirety of twelve-tone chromaticism is not represented within the harmonic series until the 25th ratio? This pitch is identified diatonically as the submediant, la’, or the relative minor in relation to the fundamental. This is, of course, if you consider the harmonic series’ seventh ratio to be a lowered 7th (not…

“I think you can’t be afraid when you go on stage. If you’re afraid that you’re not going to do well enough, then you’ll just be trying to replicate what you think other people want you to do; and replicating is never the way to convince people that you know what you are doing.” –…