About performance royalties (ASCAP & BMI)
I posted my entry about publishing on Facebook, and a friend asked a very important question: if you give your scores away for free, should…
The winding road of writing a book
I’m working on a book which I hope to self-publish by the end of the year. It’s a collection of short essays about musical instruments…
Yogis on Fire revisited
One of my “quarantine projects” was remixing my first yoga album, Yogis on Fire. I’ll back up to the beginning and then talk about what…
Publishing advice for composers
Don’t wait to “get discovered” One of my biggest pet peeves are artists talking about “getting discovered.” Obviously it’s naïve, but it’s also a passive…
Motivation & productivity in quarantine
I wrote this post about a month ago, and while some of these thoughts hold true, the whole situation gets more maddening by the day.…