Snow Day is sweet and a suite
An actual snow day inspires Stan Stewart’s latest suite of instrumental music.
Unmixing – separating logistics and creation
Unmixing – sort of the reverse of a mixing/recording session where the technology gets untangled from the creativity.
Your Guide to Making Music That Sounds Like You
When making music, there’s nothing that compares with sounding like yourself.
New Every Morning – an #improv #poem
Waking without an alarmand waking without alarmis like a simple gift. When each morningis a drive to workfrom a drive to survive, questionsrun simplicityout the door. My thoughts areof great things withgigantic magnitudes too many times toname. Today wasdifferent. This morning came without fanfare.Eyes flickered openof their own accord and in their own, sweettime. Though
Your Favorite Tracks In 2018 – thanks for listening
Stan Stewart reviews the most-played tracks by listeners like you in 2018.
Your Favorite Tracks In 2018 – thanks for listening Read More »
Season’s Songs – Caring Where Carols Come From
Familiar tunes like Christmas carols affect us consciously and subconsciously. Music impacts our brains, emotions, bodies, and — some would say — souls. You can easily find examples of moods and spirits (however you interpret that word) being changed by a song. Caroling, Caroling, Here We Go Though I often consider making Christmas or other
Strange Inspiration & Playing With Resilience
A wreck is a muse. This should rightly sound strange to some, most, or all of you: I just released an album of piano improvisations inspired by a deer smashing in the front of our car. “Release” has a double meaning in this case: it’s both the release of an album and a stress/fear release
Stark Winter
Stark Winter Winter is stark. Where I live, so much is dark and light; snow and bare trees; or gray skies and pitch-dark nights. Winter is stark. Click To Tweet Stark Inspiration It won’t take you very long to discover that I am inspired by winter. I have written songs, composed poems, and created videos