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Today, we are in the information age. If your goal is to build a career from your passion for music, you must embrace the truth…

You NEED to become an entrepreneur!

The fact that the accessibility to make music and to reach an audience has greatly increased, have both pros and cons.

With streaming services such as Spotify as the new normal for music consumption and the relatively inexpensive cost to produce and release music, we are in a whole new playing field.

Some of the pros are: 

1. It’s a lot easier to get into making music and create a good product from home. 
2. You can reach a far wider audience than ever before, thanks to the wonders of the internet and social media.

Some of the cons, however: 

1. There’s is a lot more competition since it’s easier to make music and release it.
2. You have to harness the skillset to market and build an engaging audience.

All these changes in the music industry paint a completely new picture of how you...

In our current information age, we have never before seen access to create and listen to music. As a music artist, how do you stand out? How do we remain memorable? How do you pierce through the veil of information fog that surrounds us?

Authenticity.

You want to be original? You want to be different? Unique? There’s one surefire way, my friend…

Be yourself, exceptionally.

Then, all you need is the confidence to consistently share YOUR own experiences!

Know Thyself

Partially pioneered by rock, punk, and metal in popular music culture, authenticity could be described as “@#$% you, I’m gonna do what I want” or“being yourself”. Familiar themes are challenging the status quo and ignoring the mainstream mass appeal.

What’s ironic is, that’s what’s appealing!

I can sense your left brain urging to comment “Alex, being authentic is a completely subjective concept. There’s no way to objectively measure or gauge it, how...

What are the 4 elements?

Originating from a combination of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Alchemical, and Chinese (5 elements) philosophies, it conceptualizes that certain archetypal forces reveal themselves in nature.

Since that definition sounds like it’s straight out of some old dusty ancient dictionary, let’s put into other words.

Basically, it’s the idea that throughout nature there are different temperaments that are expressed. Just like you and I have different personality traits, so do the 4 elements.

Don’t give me that look! You do it all the time. “That’s a mean looking storm” “What nice a gentle breeze” “Sigh.. what a miserable rainy day”

Contrary to the common perception of the 4 elements, they do not attempt to describe their physical counterparts. The four elements relate to the qualities of energy and matter. Not literal fire, air, water and earth that we find in our physical environment.

The 4 elements are...

It might seem over-obvious, but it’s commonly overlooked. What is the most crucial component in creating the career of your dreams as a creative?

Damn, that’s a lot of “c’ words in a row, let’s c-c-continue

It’s NOT your ideas, it’s NOT who you know.

It’s finishing. Finishing your work is the most essential step in the creative process. You can only share something, to then be praised for its glory, when it has been completed.

Before you ask…yes, finishing a project is its own step! Every painting, piece of music, book, ex-cetera, has gone through the conscious choice of being completed.

“Alright… I’m calling it, It’s done.”—Future You

Every successful creative has learned how to finish their work and know when to call it complete.

You have to learn the process of how to complete your work in order to share it with the world, grow and move on to bigger and better things!

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You’re a creative, you’re passionate, you have something to express! You want to be a professional, living a life of total creative freedom. Working on what you want, when you want. Loving what you do because you chose to do it, not because you have to.

The truth is, the deep desire you have to express yourself, is at the fundamental core of your being.

Trust me, it’s not going anywhere.

You may have discovered this already. Yet, to achieve a lifestyle that centers around your passion and creativity, YOU have to build it.

You must become the rockstar of your world and CREATE your career. It won’t manifest itself, and no one will give it to you.

You’re going to have become the magic that makes it happen! To become magical, you must COMMIT yourself to the art of the craft.

Now it’s time to roll up those sleeves! (I hope you have sleeves)

The Paradox Of Freedom

Paradox is an interesting concept. In essence, it means something that contradicts...

What are standing waves?

Basically they’re waves that stand around, definitely not sitting down. HA, blog post done. PEACE.

More seriously though… it’s like the loud guy at a bar, adding that extra tension in the room.

Okay, okay. Final stage of seriousness.

Standing waves are commonly known in the audio world as the accumulation of resonant frequencies within a control room. If it remains untreated with soundproofing, these standing waves will create pockets of heightened sound pressure areas that will interfere with the listeners' perspective.

This can be a huge obstacle for mixing engineers, even home studio producers. Having an optimal listening environment to create an accurate representation of the frequencies you’re working with is a crucial component in designing your sounds and ultimately finishing your work.

Opera Singers and Bridges

All objects emanate a core set of frequencies when struck, strummed or somehow otherwise disturbed (like...

The creative mind has always been an enigma. Abstract, right-brain thinkers and artists usually are the first to come to mind when the subject of creativity arises. From fanciful euphoria to self-perpetuating depression, creatives explore themselves through their expression.

The truth is that everyone has the ability to be creative. Yes even YOU!

If you think about the formation of celestial bodies or the process of making wine, the act of creation in itself aims to break the mold, explore different states, to destroy and combine things to produce new results.

In other words, ALL creation is a form of transformation.

I’d like to show you how unlocking your own musical creativity, through the lens of the ancient practice of alchemy, can spark new perceptions and reveal the hidden genius inside you!

Artistic alchemy is truly the leader in self-transformation.

A paradigm for creative, personal and spiritual development.

“Art is not a thing, it is a way”—...