essays & reflections on crafting a creative career
Everyone has a relationship to music, whether they consider themselves music fans, musical prodigies, or tone deaf. You may remember a childhood lullaby, learning the piano, your wedding song, or the Folger’s jingle, or you may ride the subway every day, religiously listening to your iPod. You may use it to drown out noise at […]
I get a lot of questions about writing commercial music. For example: how did I became a jingle writer? and how is it possible to have a career as a songwriter and a career as a composer? Everyone that writes for ads has a different story of how they landed into the world of writing […]
The logistics of staying small are quite voluminous. Even being a perfectionist is a form of procrastination. The comfort of “being a starving artist” is overwhelmingly powerful. As a sense of urgency for change crept in, I got clear that I had to create a context of fearlessness, creativity and freedom for myself and let this new context propel my next actions.