MORE CONFESSIONS OF A SINGING GROUPIE
Yesterday, I accompanied Steve Gunderson (composer, arranger, and actor extraordinaire) on a visit to Dinah Lenney (formidable actress, singer, writer) to see if she could/would sing a song from The Artificial Woman at an upcoming Red Hen Press event at the end of this month, in Los Angeles.
Continue reading → Amy Gerstler’s diary: August 12 2016 More Confessions of a Singing Groupie
Confession: great singing drives me CRAZY. In a Good Way. Those blessed with gorgeous voices don’t seem entirely human to me. I tremble in awe, feel shy around them. I want to pinch them and see if they flinch like us lower order mortals.
Continue reading → Amy Gerstler’s diary: July 28 2016 recording session
I attended a meeting at the San Diego Foundation that brought together the five Creative Catalyst Fellows for 2016. It was great to meet this diverse, interesting, adorable cadre of artists.
Continue reading → Meeting my fellow 2016 Creative Catalyst Fellows
Amy Gerstler and I have come up with a few different song writing ‘techniques.’
The writing of a song might happen like this: We decide “a song could go here…” and one of us brings the other an idea, then that person takes it and runs a first draft (lyric first if it’s Amy, music first if it’s me), and then we start a sort of back and forth process. I love that process. Each collaboration with a writer is different. This is my first collaboration with Amy and I can’t say I’ve ever had an easier one.