Comments on: Making Connections (more thoughts from Davidson’s “Brain” course) http://mieatnec.org/blog/2006/11/making-connections/ News and Stories from Artist-Teacher-Scholars Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:41:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Andy http://mieatnec.org/blog/2006/11/making-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Andy Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:33:48 +0000 http://mieatnec.org/blog/2006/11/06/making-connections/#comment-27 Perhaps the accountant and the lawyer have found a career path that does not stimulate their happiness, but grants a means to their happiness. Can money and financial security really make happiness. Is happiness only a matter of brain chemistry? Is there some notion of soul or spirit that we are forgetting? Where does that fit in to brain chemistry? My head just exploded... Perhaps the accountant and the lawyer have found a career path that does not stimulate their happiness, but grants a means to their happiness.

Can money and financial security really make happiness. Is happiness only a matter of brain chemistry? Is there some notion of soul or spirit that we are forgetting? Where does that fit in to brain chemistry?

My head just exploded…

]]> By: Erin http://mieatnec.org/blog/2006/11/making-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Erin Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:00:10 +0000 http://mieatnec.org/blog/2006/11/06/making-connections/#comment-22 I agree with Fred. It specifically talks about how people might engage their minds in professions other than music. In Eric Booth's article on page 18, he refers to something he calls "the verbs of art." He says that, "We can engage artistically no matter what medium we're working in." He also references a time when he was working in marketing. He began to compare his artistic experience with playing Hamlet and working in marketing. At first he began to think what a sell out he had become, but in the end, he concluded that he, "was engaged in actions that were the same as the actions [he] had engaged in playing Hamlet. Very different media, same verbs." I agree with Fred. It specifically talks about how people might engage their minds in professions other than music. In Eric Booth’s article on page 18, he refers to something he calls “the verbs of art.” He says that, “We can engage artistically no matter what medium we’re working in.” He also references a time when he was working in marketing. He began to compare his artistic experience with playing Hamlet and working in marketing. At first he began to think what a sell out he had become, but in the end, he concluded that he, “was engaged in actions that were the same as the actions [he] had engaged in playing Hamlet. Very different media, same verbs.”

]]> By: Fred http://mieatnec.org/blog/2006/11/making-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Fred Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:11:49 +0000 http://mieatnec.org/blog/2006/11/06/making-connections/#comment-20 Brynn, You should really read an article by Eric Booth, titled "The Teaching Artist and the Artistry of Teaching." It's a fascinating piece which, for me, throws open the doors of the creative possibilities when it comes to being artist-teachers. But more specifically, he takes some time in this article to create a working definition of "art" and does so starting with the perspective that his work as a businessman was <i>as satisfying and engaging</i> as his previous work as an actor. As a musician, I feel like I take for granted that I know what a "musical experience" is – or what an "artistic experience" is – but when it boils down to it, it's not a very informed understanding. It's a very clear and definite feeling about the matter, but it is a hard place to work from logically/rationally/persuasively. But adding Booth's ideas on top of that have helped me to feel more connected (and therefore more relevent to) the proverbial lawyer you speak of. You can find this article in the first volume of the Journal for Learning Through Music, which is available freely on the Music-in-Education.org website: <ul> <li>Link to the journal site: <a href="http://www.music-in-education.org/llsn/llsn_articlelist.php" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">www.music-in-education.org/llsn/llsn_articlelist.php</a>.</li> <li>Link straight to the article: <a href="http://www.music-in-education.org/llsn/articles/2-G.pdf" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Eric Booth: The Teaching Artist and the Artistry of Teaching</a></li></ul> -- Fred -- Brynn,

You should really read an article by Eric Booth, titled “The Teaching Artist and the Artistry of Teaching.” It’s a fascinating piece which, for me, throws open the doors of the creative possibilities when it comes to being artist-teachers. But more specifically, he takes some time in this article to create a working definition of “art” and does so starting with the perspective that his work as a businessman was as satisfying and engaging as his previous work as an actor.

As a musician, I feel like I take for granted that I know what a “musical experience” is – or what an “artistic experience” is – but when it boils down to it, it’s not a very informed understanding. It’s a very clear and definite feeling about the matter, but it is a hard place to work from logically/rationally/persuasively. But adding Booth’s ideas on top of that have helped me to feel more connected (and therefore more relevent to) the proverbial lawyer you speak of.

You can find this article in the first volume of the Journal for Learning Through Music, which is available freely on the Music-in-Education.org website:

– Fred –

]]> By: Randy http://mieatnec.org/blog/2006/11/making-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Randy Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:07:29 +0000 http://mieatnec.org/blog/2006/11/06/making-connections/#comment-19 You could look at it the opposite way too: What brain processes do accountants and lawyers use most, and how do those processes manifest themselves in the work of musicians? Great post, Brynn! Thanks for writing. You could look at it the opposite way too: What brain processes do accountants and lawyers use most, and how do those processes manifest themselves in the work of musicians? Great post, Brynn! Thanks for writing.

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