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54 audio delights.

Even more music for fall 2024.

In conversation with Ashley Jane Lewis.

A delightful physical product.

New music on streaming and CD.

SSHRC-funded project on how creative people adapt in challenging times.

Lots of things in less than seven minutes.

The creator of MOTHA visits to do a keynote!

Music “about seeking connection in anxious times”.

Amazing new team member!

A conversation with Matt Gooderson about creativity and music making.

New video with lots of things in less than 7 minutes.

Complete event filmed with three cameras and proper sound and everything!

Recorded live at HQ, Toronto, 8 December 2022.

Considering your creativity as a body of work makes a difference.

I do like designing the physical things.

New single released on Unfolding Records.

Our first creative summer camp for adult makers, artists and creators.

Actual physical product.

New music, on all streaming platforms now.

Aren’t most of the things that people call creativity ‘theory’ just creativity description?

Doing innovation in a better way.

The statement on ‘ungrading’ from my syllabus.

Interview with the prolific electronic and ambient music producer.

Rankings, grades and online performance scores don’t reflect reality – but the problem is much worse than that.

Selected from 170 incredible applicants!

The project supporting Black creators continues!

Talking about creativity with Amanda, Heather and Stedman, using Lego.

Inspiring ideas and advice.

Support for BIPOC creators in the Greater Toronto Area.

I asked my students to do a project across the term, and so I’m doing it too.

Supporting Black creators in the Toronto area.

Now offered free of charge – advice and coaching on your creative ideas and projects.

I put a lot of work into this one!

A new music track. Trying not to throw in too much. Failing.

Recommissioned for a second Artscape Launchpad series!

Advice and coaching on your creative ideas and projects. All proceeds to Black Lives Matter Toronto.

Progress in the music department.

Free online workshops, hosted by Artscape Launchpad.

Thoughts on music-making, all in one place.

What does it mean, “10,000 hours” to master something?

On getting useful feedback.

It’s an obvious idea . . . but that’s not going to stop us!

And in a new team-up with Jodianne Beckford!

Lots of lectures drop at once, like on Netflix, except, lectures.

I worked out why I don’t want to be in their bubble.

On the proper form of a university course

The #FreeSchool was a delightful and diverse success!

Where did we nick this idea from?

Is imagination the same as creativity?

Two weeks of creative everything, open to everyone, running 21–31 May 2019.

This was going to be my next book, but then it wasn’t.

New course I’m teaching at Ryerson University.

Launch of new website for new lab!

The third of my three Canada Research Chair themes.

The second of my three Canada Research Chair themes.

The first of my three Canada Research Chair themes.

My Canada Research Chair seven-year plan.

A new course I’m offering at Ryerson University, Toronto.

A new job at Ryerson University. Locals are invited to say hi.

I’ve got a new job at Ryerson University, Toronto, starting in January.

Reflections after a day in the studio with Matt Gooderson.

New diagram of creativity. Public lecture, workshop and more.

Some thoughts on the creative experience of music-making.

On me making music. Don’t worry, you don’t actually have to listen to any.

They shouldn’t give me flattering titles like this.

From TEDxUmeå. It’s now online.

I made a one-minute intro video in a Danish forest.

Less is more.

15 weeks of planning for 18 minutes of talking starts here.

The second day of my Chicago trip, including my talk and workshop.

I visited Chicago Public Library System, where they are rethinking libraries as places of making and exchange.

University education as conversations, inspirations, making things happen.

Newer, tidier version of my ‘eight principles’ piece, which can be read alongside my new blog post ‘Platforms for Creativity: Introduction’.

Explaining what I mean when I talk about ‘platforms for creativity’.

Chicago event on 23 September 2015.

What happened when I went to the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana.

On meaningful connections rather than frictionless content.

Pictures, tweets and blog posts from the Dundee events.

A talk and a workshop about creativity with Amy Twigger Holroyd, on 29 January 2015.

Things by me that you can read for free.

On the importance of play, for everyone.

Final post in the self-reflective four-part series.

…that people in my kind of field don’t always emphasise. Part 3 of the 4-part series.

What can I usefully do? Part 2 in a series of 4.

What am I trying to do? Part 1 of a 4-part series.

Wordy conversations turned into graphic graphics!

Last in the series.

New AHRC funded research.

Number two in the series of three.

The cart before the horse.

First in a series of three!

Hands-on making.

New old long video.

New York! Rome! Exciting!

From my collaboration with the LEGO Foundation.

A new website and a new blog.