Writings

  • The Artist Must Be True

    Breakfast at 08.00. Following the arrival of Silence, recapitulating the Six Principles Of The Performance Event. 1.             We take a decision, and something happens. 2.             This intentional something goes better than we might anticipate, and deserve. …

    The Artist Must Be True
  • Differences Of Opinion

    Q: If you have a difference of opinion, how do you resolve the issue? What I would say is this: if anyone is working together, for example within a group context, or within a business context… The key to this is, do we share the same aim? If we share the same aim, the possible…

    Differences Of Opinion
  • The Creative Future

    The creative future is so close to us that, if we stumble when allowing it into our lives by seeking to address the past, we will fail the future. If we accept the creative future, the hold of the past will miraculously lessen of its own accord. We will find ourselves part of an unexpected…

    The Creative Future
  • Strange And Uncertain Times

    How to engage with uncertainty? Certainly, not by doing what we were doing within the constraints of the commercial society: exclusion and inequity; and acting from received opinion.  If there were any time to try something different, this is about as good an opportunity as it gets. How about – Play! Freely engage creatively with…

    Strange And Uncertain Times
  • Aim

    It is necessary to define the aim positively, clearly, and simply, right at the beginning. This way, if we find ourselves beginning to drift and lose momentum (which is inevitable) we can refer back to the aim and use it as our point of (re)orientation. So, we must use our intelligence and discrimination when establishing…

    Aim
  • The Necessary Beginning Point

    Today’s arising reflective point: the seeming difficulty of asking questions, even burning questions, in such a way that an answer might be given without me having to climb over obstacles that the form of the question puts in the way. This is a recurrent difficulty. I am astonished how decent, intelligent posters seem unable to…

    The Necessary Beginning Point
  • Silence Is Not Silent

    Understanding looks at how an event comes into being.Knowing looks towards what already exists. Music is the place where Silence meets sound. So, we have two immediate perspectives:…

    Silence Is Not Silent