Music Making – Musicably

November 8, 2026

Why Choirs Make Us Cry

This week, someone in our choir parents’ WhatsApp group reshared a phone recording of our boys singing Gustav Holst’s “I Vow to Thee, My Country.” It was from the big concert last spring, the last major performance for our sons’ class before they graduated from Grade […]

July 14, 2026

The Paradox of Modern Musicking: Ultimate Proof, Ultimate Loss

There have been two very interesting books released recently, that I don’t want to wait to write about until my annual music books evaluation. Mainly because these two books are very much relevant to what Musicably is about. I hope you will find them as fascinating […]

June 29, 2026

Why Musicking Makes You Smarter at Any Age

What Einstein, Planck, and Feynman Never Forgot Albert Einstein played violin every single day. Not when he was young and still figuring things out. Throughout his adult life, in the middle of his most important work. When his thinking hit a wall, he would put down […]

June 26, 2026

Good Quality is a Wrong Question

Is quality a proper word to be connected or associated with music? This is a question I have been thinking about for a while, and in this post, I will try to express my view on the topic. My opinion is quite clear: when considered from […]

June 15, 2026

3,400 Strangers Who All Wanted to Be Alone – And Found Each Other Anyway

A few weeks ago I was watching a YouTube video about isolation. The speaker, Jacob Whelan, was arguing that choosing to step back from social life is not failure but something closer to wisdom – a hardwired response to a world that has become too noisy, […]

April 24, 2026

I Have Been Saying This for Years. This Proves It!

It happened the way the best discoveries usually do – sideways, by accident, while looking for something else. I was following a thread of research this morning, one thing leading to another the way it does, and suddenly I was reading about a man named Victor […]

March 20, 2026

Is “Saving the Music” Actually Killing It?

Why $75 Million Can’t Buy What Your Grandmother Had for Free When Apple recently scaled up its partnership with the Save The Music Foundation, the headlines were celebratory. And why not? Since its founding, STM has invested over $75 million in more than 2,800 school music […]

March 4, 2026

Creativity Isn’t a Gift. It’s a Dare.

Your musical limitations are your greatest advantage. The inspiration for this post has come from one of my favourite youtubers – Guy Michelmore and his video “How to be Creative”, at exactly the time, when I was thinking what would be the best way to continue […]

February 25, 2026

The Reveal: The Musicking Pyramid

This is the final part of this four-part series. We’ve proven music is your birthright. We’ve shown the neuroscience of the Shared Brain. But we’ve also named the crisis: we are musically malnourished. We’ve traded the high‑protein activity of making music for the high‑sugar habit of […]