The Whole Musician Workshop: Podcasts

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Have you ever had one of those dreams where you need to scream, but no sound comes out?

Do you know what it’s like to be in a phase where you need to deconstruct your self-expression in order to grow and change what it is you have to say and how you say it?

Music and creativity are chock full of paradoxes and opposites:

* You need to empty yourself of preconceptions in order to be filled with fresh new ideas.
* The more silences you leave, the more the sound comes through.
* The nearer your destination the more you’re slip sliding away…

Perhaps nothing challenges an artist more than losing their voice, whether physically or metaphorically. But, truth be told, it’s important sometimes, to lose touch with who you are, what you have to say, and how you are going to say it, in order to stay fresh and in the flow of becoming the next version of yourself–to stay in the “creative pocket.”

So how do you do it and, in a world usually focused on building yourself up (in addition to your music, career, possessions…), how can you let things break down with grace and dignity?

Listen in on this podcast as JP muses upon the art of losing your voice in service of expanding your Voice.

(By the way, Joshua recorded this podcast while suffering from laryngitis–listen now to hear him literally find his voice while losing it!)