by Greg M | Jan 1, 2025 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
2024 began in the afterglow of the release of my first longform piece, Tears For a Numinous Realm, on New Year’s Eve ’23. The elephant in the Projects Room, so to speak, remains the Carving in Shadows album, which passed the 12th anniversary of its inception. It did...
by Greg M | Mar 3, 2020 | Intrinsic Beauty, The Creative Life
“The closest analogy to how I experience both the act of painting and a finished work of art is music. While I am painting I feel like music is streaming through me on to the paper. It is difficult to say whether I am playing the music or the instrument being played....
by Greg M | Oct 26, 2019 | The Creative Life
At the end of 2018, I announced that I was ending online availability of my solo work, partly to protect it against theft, and partly because I believed that I was playing into a global/financial cultural mentality which is antithetical to creative work. The Music...
by Greg M | Feb 18, 2018 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life
As anyone who has attended one or two of them knows well, a Steve Roach concert is much more than a music performance. It’s a ritual gathering of kindred spirits from far and wide. Our friend, uber-connoisseur and prolific reviewer Richard Gürtler made the trip from...
by eyes cast down | Oct 23, 2014 | The Creative Life
A shout-out here to my colleague Phillip Wilkerson, whose music I’ve recently (finally!) had the pleasure of discovering. His releases Sojourner and Highlands are simply outstanding, and I can’t wait to hear his latest, Wondrous Encounters, and the...