Do you ever feel overwhelmed with information overload? Do the number of choices you face as a creative artist sometimes petrify you while at other times they inspire you?

If you ever find yourself at a loss after spending too much time trying to digest too much information, you can model innovators and artists from other eras to discover some surprising ways that the artistic spirit has turned ugliness into beauty, squeezed solutions out of problems, or laughed the fun out of failure.

Pioneering visual artist Andy Warhol and legendary writer Charles Bukowski serve as springboards for this SOS episode in which JP searches for his own music and meaning in the midst of noise and nonsense.

 

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Are there any areas in your life where you experience an abundance of frustration? 

If not, you might want to skip this podcast. If so, go ahead, take a listen, and get ready to tap into your frustration as fertile source of good material for your next song or composition. Six distinct strategies for turning your difficult emotions into sweet musical ideas are explored and analysed. 

JP not only discusses, but also sits in on the piano to play around with some examples that range from Beethoven to Americana.

 

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Have you ever experienced tension between your physical experience and your mental state? How about your ideas and your reality?   

If you stop to think about it, music can be understood as an interplay between opposing, yet complimentary energies: the electrical charge that comes from the ether and the grounding support that comes from the material world. If you have ever experienced the challenges that come from trying to manage these poles of the human experience, join this SOS podcast as JP explores ways to balance the artistic with the practical, the intangible with the material, and the emotional with the physical in the arts of songwriting and performance. 

 

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