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Skull Defect
 • Tanya Kalmanovitch
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Music and Money
 • Tanya Kalmanovitch
4
Reprise: “How Quitting Music Made Me An Artist”
 • Tanya Kalmanovitch
2
Music and Climate Emergency
 • Tanya Kalmanovitch
4
In which I return with more questions than answers
 • Tanya Kalmanovitch
Week 2.1 Preamble: Magical Thinking About Music
 • Tanya Kalmanovitch
Nothing Compares 2 U
Remembering Ryan Muncy, the spring of 2020, and his lessons about how to survive a new normal.
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Tanya Kalmanovitch
On Teaching Entrepreneurship
When the word is both a wound and its medicine, we must remember that there is always an alternative.
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Tanya Kalmanovitch
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The Homunculus
When I quit playing music and took up psychology, I began to see how my brain, my body, and my life were all three bent to the shape of music.
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Tanya Kalmanovitch
Reprise: “How Quitting Music Made Me An Artist”
An essay originally published by 21CM, July 2018.
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Tanya Kalmanovitch
2
Surgiversary Two
“Live in the layers, / not on the litter.”
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Tanya Kalmanovitch
2
Week 2.2 Preamble: The song has a job
About the past 19 days, and why it's not enough to let the music do the talking.
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Tanya Kalmanovitch
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Week 2.1 Preamble: Magical Thinking About Music
If music makes the world a better place, then why are things so bad?
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Tanya Kalmanovitch
The Rest
The Rest
Making music in a post-truth world.
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