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12 months, 12 tapes, 12 songs (Volume 1)

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A new song recorded to 4-track tape every month
Interviews with Canadian Singer Songwriters
Essays on the Mysteries of Art-Making

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Why I've been Recording to Tape
Except it's also the one about internet addiction.
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
How I Stopped Trying to Quit Music
"Truth cannot fail to have an individual ring on each of its instruments" —Sertillanges
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
Talking to Music
3 ways to access what is human in the music you love
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
How to Write a Song
Just be like compost
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
Silence
Fr. Antonin Sertillanges on the conditions of thinking, writing, and poetry.
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
The Death and Resurrection of the Biopic
Bob Dylan, Robbie Williams, and Divine Inspiration
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
Slowly
A resolution for creative work in 2025
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
Turning
A poem and some choral music as the days become brighter
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
The Mystical Plowboy and his Sketchbook
On the Paintings and Practice of Tom Forrestall, pt. 2
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
Trusting the Page
Finding a Way Forward in the Writing Life
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
Realism and the True Vision of the World
On the Paintings and Practice of Tom Forrestall
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
Microcosms: The World and the Work of Art
A reflection on our project, "Bound", and its six handmade books of illustrated poetry
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
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