Kakapo and Grommets
When do you have to choose between saving a kakapo and inserting a grommet in a child’s ear? When you are a government.
Tag: music
Real Music, Real Musician
Is classical music more ‘real’ than popular music? There are biases in music, as in every aspect of life. How justified are they?
Learning & Forgetting
Life is a continual process of learning – be it software or how to work with people. Life would be so much easier if I didn’t forget what I’ve learned…
Satire and Safety
Was condemnation of Trump’s blue suit at the Pope’s funeral fair? And how does this link to concerns about my writing a song about a prominent societal figure?
Heartbeats
Our minds influence our hearts and our hearts influence our minds. Music can make our heartbeats synchronise with the people around us. Everything is connected…
Improvisation & Genius
I tried not to write a post about Trump this week. I even went surfing at Colac Bay to get him out of my thoughts. Unfortunately, every road apparently leads to Trump, even when thinking about improvisation and genius.
Doing Hard Things
Doing hard things…I seem driven to do them and I don’t really know why. Does this happen to you? My latest hard thing is singer-songwriting performance with my cello.
AI Frontline
While depictions of the future showed robots doing our dirty work, AI is already taking over creative roles that people still want to do. What’s happening and why?
Am I an Anachronism?
Creatives don’t have to retire, except perhaps they do when AI can do better than them. How soon will my role be redundant? Not yet…but maybe soon…
Musical Unity
Music is a powerful force to uplift and unite us, as I remembered when we sang along with 2000 people in Tim Finn’s recent concert, reliving his hit songs.