Thinking Creator

Once upon a time, I cranked out an awesome introductory essay for my thesis.  It was cut in the first round for being too chatty.   I just found it on my hard drive.   Here it is in all it’s rambly glory:
Music is a cultural artifact.  It exists in a specific time and place, and comes [...]

so I found out yesterday that a former coworker of mine committed suicide.  He was a fairly classic, “live hard, die young” personality that had a run-in with the police, and wound up ending his own life.
What do we do with an aimless generation..?  So committed the future, and with more resources than any previous [...]

Hi again!
I’ve recently begun to have a regular schedule again, and I’m hoping to write here for 30mins a day.  We’ll see how it goes.
Here’s the review I wrote for Naxos of Proclamations.
 
Proclamations, the new disc from the USAF Heritage of America Band, out on Klavier (via Naxos) is a great repetoire cd for wind [...]

Beyond work, then, lies the territory of other generic human activities that deserve Christain affirmation,. We need a theological understanding of art, for example, as a worthy pursuit…We need a theological understand of sport as a worthy pursuit in its formation of character, in its symbolism (fair play, honest effort, clear rules, penalties for infractions, [...]

So, some great news!  Countermotion.org has one-upped themselves, and are now committing to 8 shows (up from the original 5) and will be paying some generous advances!  I may well be on my way to becoming a composer.  (If one considers professional marching band writers composers)  Hindemith would be proud.  I’m not sure if Copland [...]

Hi!  I do still exist!
The soundcrawl became increasingly more time consuming as we approached the event.  We’re still recovering.  Wonder of wonders, we got coverage by the 4 most influential (to me) media outlets in Nashville, which was a complete trip!
I learned quite a bit.  Some of which I’ll continue to share here.
but this post [...]

Oh.  he’s some material I wrote about Stanley Grenz’ “A Primer on Postmodernism” it’s relevant, I promise.
 
Stanley Grenz, “A Primer on Post Modernism”
 
Grenz opens this book with a phenomenal illustration of the differences between modernism and postmodernism:  Star Trek vs. Star Trek TNG.
 
In the original series, the enterprise’
s goal was to seek out [...]

Hello, I thought I’d jot a quick note about the SoundCrawl.  It’s becoming a bit of a circus, something is always going on, and it seems like  a million decisions have yet to be made.
1 – I now understand why festivals/contests charge for submission.  Our most devoted individuals are the hopeful participants.  Our budget is [...]

is a book that offers a theory of a “universal mono-myth” it was first published in the late 60s, and is the framework Lucas built the Star-wars saga, precipitating 40 years of continuous publication as storytellers in any format seek its guidance.  Interestingly, it is written by a psychologist, not a anthropologist, and sits in [...]

So this is the second of three posts about the books I’ve been reading lately, as they relate to the conversation I’ve been having with Stephen Proctor and Camron Ware about theology of the arts/theology of the visual.
The following are the notes I took/underlined/scribbled from God in the Gallery by Daniel A. Siedell. If you’re [...]