Page (2022a) Where ever I am, I am with you When ever I breathe, I breathe with you When ever I sigh, I sigh with you Energetically ……. Where ever I am, I...
Category: Creative Writing
All things creative writing – contemporary storytelling – related: prose, narrative, poetry, lyrics, & poets, lyric writing & songwriters, raps & rappers, …. examples, methods & people who practice the many and varied mediums of contemporary storytelling…
Doctoral Pilot Study – Part 24b
Research Study Abstract The aim of this Doctor of Creative Industries Research Project is to investigate both my DIY music and sound-making practice and my self as a practitioner during the process of creating and producing a cultural artefact (EP). My research study is designed to be a multi-method qualitative study: a practice-based, arts practice...
Doctoral Pilot Study – Part 17a
(Page 2014a) This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2014b) for the previous blog. Reflecting on 2014 …. My approach to practice was so different to that of my recently recruited peers. As part of the creative media studies stream, learners were now to be immersed in specific creative media lexis and theory, via tasks that...
Doctoral Pilot Study – Part 16a
In Search of Embodied Practice Self Reflection (2016) Research Practice Continuing on from previous blogs in this series; I have actively engaged in research practice investigating various research methodologies, I started to define my view of what my practice was. Whilst I have not formally studied Reflective Practice at a tertiary level, I have been presented a number of...
Creative Practitioner – Part 246
Doctorate of Creative Industries Project 1 (Self Reflection 2016) This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2017a) for the previous blog. Observations of my developing perspective Based on my observations of practice over the course of this doctoral program, in pure quantitative terms: the number of elements of my Praxis has increased...
Learning & Teaching – the first 10,000 hours….
The first 10,000 hours of practice is everything….. “10,000 hours. That is: 40 hours per week, for 48 weeks a year, for 5.2 years. A full-time employment workload excluding time where the aspiring practitioner is observing, or being talked through a task by a professional practitioner. A full-time employment workload, excluding training periods where the aspiring practitioner is doing...
Memory – Age 20 Part 2
(Kent 2012) This is another in-situated recollection of what I consider to have been a significant event in my life, when I was Age 20. Herein, after….. Herein, after …..(passage to the afterlife))©David L Page 2016 Verse 1: What I knew has vanished all around My world has turned inside out there is over here, and...
Memory – Introduction
Context The series of memory blogs that follow this Introductory blog are part of David L Page’s creative process – reflecting on selected significant events in the early stages of his life, and associating sonic and musical textures that best represent his memory of those significant events. The collection of associative memories will then be formed into...
Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’
Review of Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’ Reviewer: Sheena Kajal Stickland Patel This poem ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar makes me think about how lucky we are to live in Australia and have all the beautiful scenery, landscapes and natural features like Uluru, the coast and many more. This poem is an Ode poem which is...
Memory – Age 4
A Few Months Past Four…. A Few Months Past Four….©David L Page 2016 Verse 1: I recall going to kindy A neighbour drove me with their children, My local street kids – one the same age as me.. And his little sis They dropped us off for the day…. It was in a local church,...