Creative Process

Gary Reef On Expectations

July 20, 2010

This advice seems like a double edged sword – on one hand it seems quite encouraging to know you’ll improve over time, on the other hand it seems depressing that it will take such a long time. But it is true, I’m sure.

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Robert DiFazio: Everybody Sucks

May 4, 2010
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When you watch Michael Jackson perform it seems everything he touches turns to gold. But was it always as easy as he made it seem? Robert DiFazio doesn’t seem to think so. He has a startling revelation and I’m hoping it will change the way you look at your own work too.

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Creativity Is Still A Process

October 10, 2009

I’ve been a fan of Kate Bush for some time now. For some reason over the last three days I’ve been particularly fascinated by her work, watching documentaries and music videos and interviews with her. The thing that I found interesting was the way music commentators described her as being a ‘fully-formed’ artist from her musical debut.

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Bob Brookmeyer On Starting The Process

September 26, 2009

This video comes from Artists House Music and features composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and music educator Bob Brookmeyer. He talks about a lot of different things in the course of this video but the part that interested me the most was about what he did to actually start the process of composing.

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