I’ve been carrying around a box of 4-track audio cassettes for years. They’re my “master tapes,” and they’re of dubious usefulness. Especially since it’s been about three years since I’ve laid eyes on my 4-track cassette recorder that’s capable of playing them back properly. Until last weekend. Unpacking, sorting, purging, and re-packing, I came across Read More
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Prompt 56: Headline Rhythm
This week we’ll work with an arbitrary way to generate an initial musical idea. We’ll start with a “found phrase” (and we’ll help you find one), and ask you to decide what rhythm it falls into for you. From there, we’ll take out the words, add whatever melody calls to us, and articulate in our Read More
Prompt 54: SICK!
I see you there. Doing your fabulous life. (Yes, I know it doesn’t feel all that fabulous all the time, but it is.) Singing your sings, writing the things, teaching, dancing, organizing, balancing books, healing, managing staff, building stuff, connecting people… all the things that you do with that fabulous meat machine you’re driving around, Read More
Prompt 52: Winter Comes Full-Cycle
Some of you are on the East Coast of the Unites States, where we’ve got a bit of a snowy situation brewing. Others of you are not, but most of us can remember a time when we were snowed-in or, if not, a time when we had cabin fever for one reason or another. But I Read More
Prompt 51: Let’s Play
Sometimes it seems as if we’re not doing art that matters unless we get in touch with some intense human experience. Here at SingThis Mission Control, we’ve ocassionally gone that way: “sing your courage. Sing for simply being alive; then, for waking up. Sing an emotion; speak your truth. Sing for healing, sing absurdity, sing Read More
Prompt 49: Anterospective
Last week, a retrospective, a look “backward, back, or behind.” This week, on the (admittedly arbitrarily-selected) first calendar day of the New Year, a look “before or in front” of the year you have ahead of you. We could call that an “anterospective” if we wanted to, sure, we have an artistic license and we know Read More