By James Pew
Here is another excerpt from my book Studio Manifesto: Exploring the Possibilities of Indie. As always please leave your thoughts in the comments section. Thanks for reading.
“I wanna disconnect myself pull my brain stem out and unplug myself”- Henry Rollins
Disconnect from what? From everything you assume and take for granted – from [...]

by James Pew
In December Derek Sivers sent out an invitation via his email newsletter asking musicians if they would like a free copy of one of the many marketing books that he recommends to the readers of his blog. Derek’s idea was to send out copies of these books to interested musicians, who would in [...]

by James Pew
Here is another excerpt from my book Studio Manifesto: Exploring the Possibilities of Indie. As always please leave your thoughts in the comments section. Thanks for reading.
Looking at it from a technical point-of-view, the musician is like a musicologist. The word musicology “is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses”. “In the intermediate [...]

By James Pew
Here is another excerpt from my book Studio Manifesto: Exploring the Possibilities of Indie. As always please leave your thoughts in the comments section. Thanks for reading.
“Even specialist learning in higher education proceeds by ignoring interrelationships; for such complex awareness slows down the achieving of expertness.” – Marshall Mcluhan
Great musicians do not ignore [...]

For the purpose of providing context for my book STM: Exploring the Possibilities of Indie, here are some McLuhan montages found on youtube. I’ve replayed them many times an I’m always shocked at the depth of McLuhan’s understanding of the “total pervasive effect of media.” – James

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