(Slice of Life is a month-long writing challenge to write every day in March, with a focus on the small moments. It is hosted by Two Writing Teachers. This year, I’m going to pop in and out, but not write daily slices, as I did for the past ten years of Slice of Life. You write, […]
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Musical Slice of Life: Hope (Still) Remains
(This is for the Slice of Life challenge, hosted by Two Writing Teachers. We write on Tuesdays about the small moments in the larger perspective … or is that the larger perspective in the smaller moments? You write, too.) After the 2016 elections, in the days of disbelief and anger that followed, I sat down and wrote […]
Lightning Thief Musical: Songs From The Show
Last night, I had the pleasure to interview Rob Rokiki for the National Writing Project’s Write Time show. Rob wrote the music and lyrics to The Lightning Thief musical, and he shared insights into his writing process and creative thinking when balancing music, writing and story. When the NWP interview gets released, I’ll share it […]
Music: Diamonds In The Rough (Oak Tree)
Here’s a new song that I’ve been working on. It started when I hit an accidental chord on my guitar and then thought, hey, wait a second, and the song unfolded pretty quickly from there. Peace (and music), Kevin
Collaborating With AI (Iteration Five – Inviting The Reader In)
This post is part of a series of deeper dives I am doing (yet again) to explore the ways a human might write poems with Generative AI (in this case, using Google’s new Gemini). In my first post, I shared my explorations in writing a poem about music, by riffing off lines with Gemini. In […]
Collaborating With AI (Iteration Four – Cohort Analysis)
I’ve been working on a series of posts and inquiry activities that began with a collaboration I did with Google’s new Gemini AI, in which it and I wrote a poem together on the theme of music. We traded lines, back and forth. Iteration One Iteration Two Iteration Three For today’s iteration, I brought the […]
Collaborating With AI (Iteration Three – Dancing With Voices)
This post is part of a series of deeper dives I am doing (yet again) to explore the ways a human might write poems with Generative AI (in this case, using Google’s new Gemini). In my first post, I shared my explorations in writing a poem on the theme of music, by trading lines with […]
Collaborating With AI (Iteration Two – Playing A Poem)
Yesterday, I wrote about a poetry experiment I did with Google’s Gemini AI, but I am still interesting in exploring different angles on that project. I took its words and my words into Keynote and separated them out, so that one side is the AI lines and the other, mine. The music I composed seeks […]
Video Documentary: The Last Repair Shop
When I was a kid, my father (a drummer) used to bring me to visit a musical instrument repair shop for odds and ends, and it would be a place I enjoy just being in, just hanging out in. It was called George’s Music Shop, and George was the man behind the counter, and when […]
Jazz Music and MLK Jr.: A Found Poem
My wife and I were at a music club last night, listening to two very fun jazz bands. One of the band leaders noted that in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the Berlin Jazz Festival with a short speech connecting Jazz music to Civil Rights, and the power of the arts and expression. The […]