Horn player musings of creation - from the second performance. Warm-Up Warm-up is a strange place. Nothing officially counts, yet everything matters. Notes are tested, breath is measured, confidence negotiated quietly with physics. It is preparation, but also possibility. Looking down between my feet during warm-up, I saw it again. New universes. Not fully formed. Not confident. Small clusters and scattered points, practice universes. Places where physics was still flexible, where civilizations … [Read more...]
The Accidental Genesis – Horn player musings of creation
Program notes for a universe formed during intermission - Performance night one. Observed shortly before intermission. Note the presence of the creator’s feet for scale, accountability, and mild judgment. At first glance, skeptics will say the image above is just a spill.Condensation. Gravity doing what gravity does. A little gross, maybe inconvenient, but ultimately meaningless. That theory collapses under even casual scrutiny. What you are actually looking at is creation mid-process. These … [Read more...]
The Great Tab Debate: A Conversation with My AI Friend, Tabitha
The Great Tab Debate: A Conversation with My AI Friend, Tabitha Alright, folks. Let’s talk about something we all do, but no one wants to admit: the tab-hoarding behavior that takes over our browsers. You know who you are. I know you’re out there with 20+ tabs open, claiming it’s “efficient.” Sure, I get it, maybe it is.... until you’re scrolling through 30 tabs trying to find the one you were just looking at. Is this it, no - what about this one, no... on and on it goes. So, I decided to have a … [Read more...]
What If? – Gig Edition
Crazy thoughts? We all have them from time to time. But this weekend, I had a doozy. Sitting in rehearsal with The Symphony of the Mountains for our side-by-side concert of Movie Music with area high schoolers, I was playing along when—like all brass players must—I needed to empty my slides. (“spittious-accumulatious” for the uninitiated.) I looked down at the fresh pattern on the floor left by my most recent…ejection…and a thought struck me. (Naturally, I had to share it with the second … [Read more...]
Feedback – two way street
This is a copy of a post I placed on LinkedIn. Feedback its a Two-Way Street: The Gift You Must Be Ready to ReceiveAt work we often hear and read complaints about the lack of feedback. Team members claim they crave it, and we as leaders, strive to provide it. But there’s an unspoken truth: many of those asking for feedback aren’t truly prepared to receive it. They dismiss it as invalid, blame external factors, or simply aren’t open to hearing it.I've come to the feeling that feedback is a … [Read more...]