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Society Needs Artists
“To all who are passionately dedicated to the search for new ‘epiphanies’ of beauty so that through their creative work as artists they may offer these as gifts to the world… Society needs artists, just as it needs scientists, technicians, workers, professional people, witnesses of the faith, teachers, fathers and mothers, who ensure the growth of the person and the development…
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Listen
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. –…
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Artist Statement
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
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An Outstanding Teacher
An outstanding teacher has a thorough and rigid understanding of their discipline and practices teaching from a desire to serve unconditionally. An outstanding teacher is devoted to continual refinement of their own skills, abilities, and aesthetic. An outstanding teacher is serious, fair, honest, and consistent, with a commitment of joy to guide pupils to a…
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Aim of Education
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…
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Be Quiet
A “teacher” must be Humble and Articulate enough to be re-made in the Present Moment of the Art Form. 98% of teaching is waiting, patiently… …to observe when, how, and why the student becomes socially, emotionally, and psychologically self aware within “This Present Moment of the Art Form”. You will know what to say when…
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Must I Write?
“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe… You ask whether your verses are any good…. You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid…No…
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Made in the Music
You can only give, what you have. You are not the music; the music is, The Music. You have to be made in the music, to share through the music. I know nothing extra of what I might offer, that equals the experience of what only music can give. – JC Heisler
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Questions for Self Education
1. Can you hear your own music in your own imagination with your own musical ideals? 2. Has this musical encounter exposed your own unsolved technical difficulties and challenges? 3. Do you lack clarity and literacy of this musical situation? 4. Is your presumptuous ego preventing you from being honest with yourself? 5. Do you…
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Studio Heutagogy
Trumpet Diatonics© orders technical advancement, while maintaining a prodigious emphasis on developing a clear aural literacy. Heutagogy is a learner-centered educational thesis rooted in key principles of learner agency, self-efficacy, capability, metacognition (knowing how to learn), and reflection. Learners are interdependent. They identify the potential to learn from phenomenal sense experiences as a matter of course, and…
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Traditions
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…
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You play what you hear. You practice hearing.
The body must only respond to the stimuli of the imagination’s ear. The depth of intent and clarity of expression solely depend on one’s ability to respond to the solitary stimulus that actually matters; the creation and manifestation of music from within, before any note is ever played. Therefore developing the imagination’s ear through refining…
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Serving Music Literacy
We learn how to speak before we can read or write. “Students” need to know from the very beginning, they are talented musicians and artists. Their sound is valuable, unique, and cherished right away. Their sound is the music from the very beginning. The skill of speech develops through our first 18 months of life…
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Practice
Your: Presence of Attention – Objectifies Coordination Patience –Sustains Focus Impartial Scrutiny –is Creative Liberation Vivid Aural-Imagination – Defines the Absolute Present – JC Heisler