Life Is What Happens… (While You’re Busy)
Our best laid plans can be circumvented by one circumstance. Take, for example, a spouse breaking a bone…
Music, Poetry, and More
Here, you’ll find the stuff that Stan Stewart has created: poetry, music, inspirations, staying connected with the present moment, photography, and more.
Snow Day is sweet and a suite
An actual snow day inspires Stan Stewart’s latest suite of instrumental music.
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.
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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
playing with feelings in improvisation – InterPlayful
Feelings are deeply connected to my improvising. What I mean by that is emotion is often (almost always?) a starting point for my improvisations. This includes piano improv. As you know (unless you’ve never been here before), one of my key creative outlets is piano improvisation. One recent avenue to this form of creating was
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It’s Election Day USA – Please VOTE
It is election day in the United States of America. Time to vote, people! Once you’ve done your civic duty, there’s a fun vote you can cast as well.
Vote for your favorite #30DaysOfInterplay piano improvisation
Vote for your favorite piano improvisation from the 30-day challenge. On November 9, 2018, I’ll tally your input and put your choices up as an album on all the streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, etc.). “How?” you may ask… By playing it (just press play) in the box below. Unlike a democratic election, you
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