“Let’s start something loud! Can you hear it?” – Cherishing the Music We Made with It’s a Girl
. . . standing backstage at our album release show and hearing the sold-out crowd stomping and chanting,
“It’s a Gril! It’s a Girl! It’s a Girl!”
Jason’s Journal Entries
Revisiting My “Practicing Greyscales” Sketchbook
I stepped up to the paper and realized, almost immediately, that I did not have control of the necessary skills to complete the piece as I wanted. I could understand the process intellectually, but it wasn’t going to come out of my pen without more practice.
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Landing Softly
It’s been three years since I left my home of the previous 25 years and drove this Uhaul trailer into the great unknown. During that time, as I laid my
Artist Statement for June 2022 Exhibition
I have been invited to show several pieces at the upcoming exhibition, Water Worlds, An Exhibition Exploring the Essence of Water (details follow). It’s the first time that I will
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“Did you draw those yourself?”
I’ve been looking into some of my limiting beliefs about both my ability to create art and about how we all create art in general. This memory – a mix
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Cheers to the Sound Engineers!
I spent the day working on “social distance sound”; both my own and others’. I run in a community of educators and teachers who, like many people in the country,
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Why do you play video games? Why do you play music? Why make art?
Why do you play video games? Make music? Draw pictures?
Is it Skill and Achievement? Social? Money? Role playing?
Reflecting on a recent episode of Imaginary Worlds.
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How I Learn Old Time Tunes – Learning to Play the Tune, Nancy, from a Recording by Jonas Friddle
For someone who is relatively new at playing music, learning a new tune, or a bunch of new tunes can be overwhelming. Because of this, I thought I would share
Stuff I Keep Track Of – Totals for 2019
I keep track of several things during the year. Here are the final numbers. A brief description of what these numbers mean and their relationship to last year follows. The
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Some of Jason’s Thoughts about the Grateful Dead
The summer/fall of 2019 has been a time of great upheaval in my life. I was glad to have a set of music together to help process these experiences. On
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A New Understanding of Fear
“If you go ahead, if you keep on running, wherever you run you will meet danger and evil, for it drives you, it chooses your way. You must choose. You
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