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Tar Sands Songbook on Tour
Touring the Trans Mountain Pipeline from November 20-30, 2023
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Seven Ways to Tell the Truth About Oil
Breaking the oil and gas industry's hold on the arts and my personal history.
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"Forging New Paths" in the Early Pandemic
Two 2020 essays by Ryan Muncy and me on how old lessons from music can still save us. How sometimes it's not enough to imagine: we have to instigate…
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Skull Defect
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Music and Money
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Music and Climate Emergency
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Reprise: “How Quitting Music Made Me An Artist”
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In which I return with more questions than answers
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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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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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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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Reprise: “How Quitting Music Made Me An Artist”
An essay originally published by 21CM, July 2018.
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Surgiversary Two
“Live in the layers, / not on the litter.”
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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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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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Making music in a post-truth world.
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