I\’ve been studying a lot about how to get more of what I want out of life over the last few years, mainly because I really haven\’t been getting that despite every effort. One person that has started me on that path is an amazing person and artist, life coach Laura Harley. But as I […]
I titled this latest production, but actually, I\’ve been working on so many projects lately, it isn\’t the very latest… I\’ll post about the rest soon. Late summer I edited and mixed a oool album by Herb-One. Herb has been working for years on tracks that he painstakingly and meticulously assembled and created from many different
Latest production: Herb-One old school hip hop jams Read More »
Last month I blogged about the current collapse of civilization. Today I was excited to see that Americans seem to finally be waking from their slumber and taking action, moving the process forward. Understandably now that approximately one in every six Americans live in poverty. This week over 700 have been arrested in mostly peaceful
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It\’s been some time now, and the verdict is clear… things are getting worse in the world not better: What does this remind you of? Sounds a lot like our civilization, right? Actually, it is a description of Ancient Rome before it\’s collapse! Many argue, things will improve and this is just a temporary situation,
Check out this highly interactive book: How cool that it\’s a follow up to Al Gore\’s An Inconvenient Truth! If only the education of children in our society was important enough to do this for schools….
Adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert. Brilliant! A must see by all:
Education – why it’s failed, where the future is, and why there’s ADHD Read More »
Last Sunday, June 12th, I had a took on a job to do a live recording of a unique and diverse performance in the Beijing Forbidden City Concert Hall for conductor Nick Smith of the Peking Sinfonietta and International Festival Choir, with guests on Percussion Claviers de Lyon from France. The gamut of instruments was
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I blogged recently about the construction of a new studio in Beijing after an electrical fire destroyed the building my first studio here was in. I didn\’t think it would take so long to get it done properly as I hired the best I could find to do it. But the standards I aspire to
Last December, I completed arranging, programming, production and engineering for a song by Chinese artist Cheng Lin. The song is about preservation of the environment, as we have \’Only One Earth\’. It was reworked from an old version in partnership with Green China, an organization recognizing philanthropy relating to preservation of the environment in China
Cheng Lin receives Green China award for our song ‘Only One Earth’ Read More »
Since I had to abandon my first studio in Beijing due to the building being damaged from electrical fire, I\’ve had to build a new studio. I\’ve chosen the location where I originally planned to set up the studio when I first decided to open one in Beijing, Real Life at Hegezhuang village. It\’s an
For over 2 years now, I\’ve been working on a song ‘Eternal Beloved’ with talented singer and composer Elika Mahony as part of her latest album of original new age pop music. Eternal Beloved is a mystical and exotic journey about the arduous eternal quest for one’s true beloved. The lyrics were inspired by the
Despite my lack of updates, I\’ve actually been quite busy here since living in Beijing China. I\’ve been working on some cool projects, one of the most interesting being Mikey Dee and Miss Melody\’s fusion of western downtempo electronic with poetic traditional Chinese folk music. The two shouldn\’t work well together, yet under the moniker
Chinese folk meets electronic music, latest production Read More »