Humuncules Music

Check out the latest one, Roots and Branches, by Steve Klingaman

Check out the latest one, Roots and Branches, by Steve Klingaman

“Hugh-Monk-You-Leeze” …It’s easy!

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My thoughts on Writing, recording and playing music.

Shoshin – Beginner’s Mind Shoshin is a Zen Buddhist concept introduced to me by Louis Patler, one of my teachers in graduate school. It means beginner’s mind. Beginner’s mind is the mental state of being open, receptive, eager, unafraid of failure, willingly naïve, devoid of preconceptions. Shunryu Suzuki writes in…

All Ideas Are Serendipitous

It seems nothing in songwriting is as important as the germ of an idea. It doesn’t really matter how many hours you put in to the final product if the germ or the spark of a good idea is not in play from the start. Those sparks are the raw…