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Skull Defect
I have a hole in my head. Should I be practicing?
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Music and Money
Toward an argument for the value of music in a system that can't see it.
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Reprise: “How Quitting Music Made Me An Artist”
An essay originally published by 21CM, July 2018.
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Music and Climate Emergency
If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
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In which I return with more questions than answers
"I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am."
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Tar Sands Songbook on Tour
Touring the Trans Mountain Pipeline from November 20-30, 2023
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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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Surgiversary Two
“Live in the layers, / not on the litter.”
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We make the music: the music doesn't make us.
Movies that get music wrong, and poems that get music right.
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Why music? Why me? Why now?
Virtue ethics, the musical brain drain, and how my hands are not for nothing.
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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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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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