The Rite of Spring

It's springtime once again in the land of blue skies, green palm trees and white beaches (aka Miami).  Being a transplanted New Yorker, the arrival of spring doesn't have quite the same impact for me in Miami as it did in the Big Apple.  However, universally springtime is celebrated as a time of bloom.  Since I'm a musician, I'll refer to this bloom as The Rite of Spring in honor of the timeless ballet by Igor Stravinsky.

Since the release of Origins last November, my world has been action packed with introducing and sharing my musical creation to the world.  Being an independent artist, I've learned that marketing your creation is a never ending, very time consuming, but limitlessly rewarding job.  The payoff for me has been the love and support I've received from so many friends and fans of my music, across the U.S. and around the world in over 50 countries.  Much of the exposure was possible due to so many great social networks and traditional and internet radio stations such as Jango.com.

Now I'm prepping for round two.  Bloom is defined by Webster as "a state or time of beauty, freshness and vigor," and this is exactly the creative state I'm in this season.  Shifting now from marketing mode to creating mode; I've been updating my instruments and sound pallets, cleaning up software and operating systems, and reviewing notes and ideas I’ve been jotting down.  I've placed some older instruments on eBay and have incorporated new instruments into the mix.  Since my new pallet has evolved from the days of recording Origins, I'm now calling it... Sound Pallet 2.0.

Most artists and creative people know that every once in a while you have to go through some level of creative spring cleaning to help inspire artistic growth and bloom.  This often requires the resurging of all your creative energy and the polishing of tools in your shed to ease the ebb and flow of creating.  I say it’s the Rite of Spring, but this season is ripe for me to create music and prepare to live again in a new state of reverie.