Inspiration Notebook: Over 100 Ways to Begin
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Use this book to spark your imagination, to provoke your inspiration. Pick it up, choose a page randomly, or read a few. It is a book for busy, creative people who would rather make something than sit around reading a lengthy manuscript.
This is your notebook. Fill the pages with your own notes, your own insights. Draw all over it, dog-ear some pages. If you like something, tear out the page and tape it to the wall. If something is completely stupid get out your biggest, fattest, marker and obliterate it – or rip out and feed it to the shredder.
James Hegarty
James Hegarty is an improvising pianist, music producer, and filmmaker who writes on creativity and artistic expression. His compositions have been performed in Europe, Asia, and throughout the US. He recently filmed a documentary on the creativity of street musicians in cities across America. Throughout the 1980s he worked as a free-lance commercial music producer confronting the intersection between art and commerce at a time when technology was rapidly changing the recording studio landscape. For twenty years he has been a college professor who teaches composition and jazz students to expand their creativity and discover their personal style. Over the years, he has been chair of the departments of music, mass communication, and communication, the division chair of creative arts and communication, and he now oversees departments that explore the potentials of multidisciplinary and experiential academic experiences. He has written concert reviews and articles on music technology for magazines and music journals. He interviews artists and innovators for his YouTube series, "Creativity Is..." Hegarty lives with his wife in a century-old historic home in St. Louis where he uses the space to record and produce avant-garde jazz and classical music.
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Inspiration Notebook - James Hegarty
Inspiration
Notebook
Over 100 Ways to Begin
James Hegarty
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Copyright 2015 James Hegarty
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To everyone who believes in the power of creativity
To move, to reach, to look, to search,
explore and discover,
and to do it again.
It might seem like music,
or a dance, or a game,
or a machine,
but it is not those things alone.
It is the thought
open,