Go well into the woods.
Take all of this lightly. It is a map drawn after the walk, not before it.
Almost none of the songs you heard tonight were written this way. They were found — by stepping blindly in the dark, by feeling for the next stone in the river, by playing something wrong and liking it. The theory came afterwards, the way footpaths appear where people already walked.
So be playful. Wander off. Play the chord that shouldn’t work and listen to what it does to you. If it moves you, it is right, and no one gets to tell you otherwise.
Go write songs.
Take the woods with you
Everything from tonight lives here — the graphs, the games, and a room to write your own.
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Bring the woods to your people
For your school, university, festival or conference.
Book a workshop → Book a call — 30 minShapes it can take
The Festival Gig · 60 min
The cabin, the paths, the feelings, the classic tracks graphed and sung, and just enough time to create something new together and see how it sounds.
The Songwriting Workshop · half day
Everything from the Festival Gig, plus a deeper dive into theory and more time for collective and individual song-crafting. Ideal for schools, universities and songwriting groups.
The Deep Dive · full day+
Tailored deeper dives on request — the metaphysics of music, where the notes come from, the physics of a singing string, the neuroscience of listening.
Explore: The Novel — “The Musician”
Paris, 1841. With his dying breath, Ferdinando Carulli scrawls an indecipherable script across the staves of an unplayable masterpiece. Two hundred years later, Asher plays it and the conduit opens. In the wreckage of everything he thought he knew, a two-thousand-year secret begins to surface.
Explore: The Kindling Songs
“Humans have always survived collapsing times in the same way — by gathering around a shared flame and remembering that we kindle the light together.”
A participatory song cycle that leans into Joanna Macy's 'Spiral of the Work that Reconnects' to help us navigate the strange weight of living through bonkers times. Part gig, part hearth, part journey together back to what we are - nature.
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