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I was kindly invited by Soren Trampedach and Work Club Global, in collaboration with the Sydney-based organisation Affectors, to present an information session on some of the craft and process of a songwriter and musician. The audience were entrepreneurs and culture creators. The discussion that came about found fascinating interplays between language in song and language in…
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Thanks to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music for hosting their first inaugural Teach Meet – a public lecture series of music educators presenting a short demonstration of an effective classroom tool. You’ll need a pen and paper to do the quick exercise at the beginning of the lecture. Enjoy!
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Exactly 11 months and 30 days ago I was 8 and a half months pregnant. That’s a lot of pregnant, by the way. It is so much human inside another human. At that exact time, I also made ONE single new year’s resolution: that I would release these 3 songs, which I had virtually…
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Reposting here a short article I wrote for ASCAP a while ago, with some thoughts and musings about successful collaborations, and some of the transformations that can happen in the process… SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATIONS Creative collaboration is very much like dating. I can’t think of any other experience that comes close to the strange…
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I was recently interviewed for online songwriting publication, “Success for your songs”. You can check out an excerpt of the interview discussing the importance of ‘power positions’ here, or watch it below. Enjoy!
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My friend showed me Busbee’s album last night, and I listened to it on repeat while driving from San Diego back to LA. There are a lot of songs from this beautiful album that are both poetry and extraordinary songwriting craft. I couldn’t help myself but keep coming back to this one though. As far…
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Hi Keppie, I have a question. I recently had a singer adapt one of my poems into a song (the verses and chorus were already written, she came up with the melody and then we added a bridge). This experience got me really interested in the songwriting process. I would love to try…
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In 1968, a psychologist called Roger W. Sperry published his groundbreaking study that showed that the two hemispheres of the human brain – the left and the right – process information in very distinct ways. Since then, there has been a lot of research and interest in left-brain and right-brain theories, and how this relates…