David Manson Musician and Composer . . . As a composer, I welcome new technology that helps me complete the steps from A to Z in composing, as well as… Read More
Archives: Articles
Entries for the Arts Coast Magazine
The Ascent of Sculpture
Don Gialanella Sculptor . . . Back in the day we used to ask people for directions and write down what they said using vague distance estimates and sketchy landmarks… Read More
Programming Early Synthesizers with Patch Cords
Tom Sivak Composer . . . I received my Master’s in musical composition from Northern Illinois University in 1977. NIU had one of the few electronic music studios in the… Read More
David Manson – June 30, 2021
Gardens… Read More
Looking Back, Sitting Still, Being Gentle
June 20, 2021 | Helen French . . . On June 17 Creative Pinellas held a group conversation with the current Professional Artist grant recipients. This was the first time… Read More
The Pandemic and Personal Values
May 2021 | By Chelsea Catherine The other day, I finished work, sat down and just thought, “Holy cow. I am wiped out.” I have been tired for months… Read More
Artists I Admire
May 2021 | By Nikki Devereux Hannah Perrine Mode I was recently doing some research for a project that I’m working on and came across an artist whose work… Read More
Young Filmmakers on the Sunscreen Film Camp for Teens
June 29, 2021 July 12-30 The Factory St. Pete Details here . . . Filmmakers Jerome Bowers and Julian Merrill are alumni of the Sunscreen Film Camp, a hands-on collaborative… Read More
High Definition
One of my favorite questions to ask writers is ‘what does writing success mean to you?’. I ask it in author conversations for book events and often in personal conversations… Read More
What does poetry do?
There have been times in the last year when I could stand to read only poetry. It seemed only the musicians and poets could make it past the walls of argument and rhetoric one sometimes finds in piles of obfuscating prose. When all other ways of using language seem to fail, poetry is the one still standing, the bridge that pushes beyond language to access what lies beneath it. I know this is unreasonable for a writer of mostly prose to say, but there it is…. Read More
