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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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Practice
Your: Presence of Attention – Objectifies Coordination Patience –Sustains Focus Impartial Scrutiny –is Creative Liberation Vivid Aural-Imagination – Defines the Absolute Present – JC Heisler
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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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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
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 you decided to Be Quiet. A “teacher” must be Humble and Articulate enough to be re-made in the Present Moment…
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The Present Moment
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…
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Singular Conviction
Where is the artist to go? Deeper into Self, the Art Form, Nature, and the Mysterious Trials of Wonder. – JC Heisler
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The Metric
The Metric by which you are critiqued: All students should desire feedback and critique. Your teacher is not an audience member. 1. I could not hear you, hearing your own music, in your own imagination. I do not hear your dialect. 2. This musical encounter has highlighted your own unique technical difficulties and challenges, that…
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Music is The Teacher
A discerning “teacher” must be a Musician who understands to act simply as a Humble Guide in function, form, and performance. A Sensitive Guide is attentive and submissive to how Music is continually compelling the student to Hear the Actual, of the Present Moment, together. In the final observation, Music does not need teachers; it…
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Imitation
Imitation is Not Art. – JC Heisler
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Mastery of Details
THE ORGANIZATION OF THOUGHT Educational and Scientific BY A. N. WHITEHEAD, Sc.D., F.R.S. There is only one subject-matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations. The mind is never passive; it is a perpetual activity, delicate, receptive, responsive to stimulus. You cannot ‘postpone its life until you have sharpened it’. Whatever interest attaches to your…
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Practice & Struggle
“(Practice) does not have to be hard labor. Just allow your body and mind to rest…Don’t struggle. Practice in a way that does not tire you out, but gives your body, emotions, and consciousness a chance to rest.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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Finding Your Way
“If you understand the cause of conflict as some fixed or one-sided idea, you can find meaning in various practices without being caught by any of them. If you do not realize this point you will be easily caught by some particular way, and you will say, “This is excellence! This is perfect practice. This…
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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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Music within The Music
“All of these amazing personalities in the music I embraced and really tried to understand the music and the feeling behind the rhythm of it all. Because everybody has their own rhythm. And when you can execute your own rhythm inside the harmony, with the melody, then all of a sudden you’re starting to say…
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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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Pierre Thibaud -“Equal Dignity”
1) Practice, Practice, Practice; 2) Experiment, Research, Always Search; 3) Trumpeters don’t like studying scales. If you ask a violinist to play you scales in major, minor, diminished he’ll play them for you in the blink of an eye. Try asking a trumpeter and you’ll see. Study the scales. 4) Always practice what is worst…
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Prodigy of Imbecility
“We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.” – G.K. Chesterton “One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping…
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Merton
“Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.” – Thomas Merton “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…
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Casals
“… I am a man first, an artist second. As a man, my first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow men. I will endeavor to meet this obligation through music – the means which God has given me since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries. My contribution to world peace may be…
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Mingus “Awesomely Simple…”
“Anybody can play weird, that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple – awesomely simple – that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus, 1972
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T.S. Eliot
“So here I am, in the middle way…trying to use words, and every attempt is a wholy new start, and a different kind of failure because one has only learnt to get the better of words for the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which one is no longer disposed…
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Einstein
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” “A good learner is one who is inquisitive and consciously committed to developing their own awareness, through their study and ever deepening experience of music.” “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” “Everything…
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Van Gogh
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” – Van Gogh
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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 gives. – JC Heisler