Stan Stewart aka muz4now

Goin’ Back – On the trickiness of reviewing one’s own art #artist #creativeprocess #indiemusic #singing #Music #MusicianTips https://muz4now.com/2017/going-back-trickiness-review

5 things you can do to keep play in your life and the world #creativeprocess #creativity #dance #InterPlay #movement #muse #play #playful #spontaneous #CreativeInsights https://muz4now.com/2012/5-things-you-can-do-to-encourage-play

Steeping Time – Brenna Layne on Tea, Loss, and Creative Process #creativeprocess #creativity #muse #presentmoment #CreativeInsights #GuestPosts https://muz4now.com/2015/steeping-time-brenna-layne-on-tea-loss-and-creative-process

Elements Vary With Our Culture – Wood and Metal #CreativeProcess #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2026/elements-vary-with-our-culture-wood-and-metal/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now%2Fmagazine%2Fart%2C%20creativity%2C%20and%20creative%20process&utm_medium=mastodon #creativity

Why Your Creative Project Never Turns Out the Way You Plan #creativeprocess #creativity #CreativeInsights https://muz4now.com/2020/why-your-creative-project-never-turns-out-way-you-plan

ICYMI: #CreativeInsights #creativeprocess Nothing Lacking – Nothing Wasted https://muz4now.com/2026/nothing-lacking-nothing-wasted/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Quick Creative Process: The Long and the Short of It #artist #creativeprocess #creativity #MusicianTips https://muz4now.com/2018/quick-creative-process-long-short

Duos – Scales of Collaboration #creativeprocess #CreativeInsights https://muz4now.com/2022/duos-scales-of-collaboration

ICYMI: #CreativeInsights #creativeprocess Collaborating Takes Many Forms – #LiveMusic #Recording https://muz4now.com/2026/collaborating-takes-many-forms-livemusic-recording/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

From Nothingness – How Emptiness Inspires Us #creativeprocess #inspiration #CreativeInsights #Improv https://muz4now.com/2020/from-nothingness-how-emptiness-inspires-us

#CreativeInsights #creativeprocess Collaborating Takes Many Forms – #LiveMusic #Recording https://muz4now.com/2026/collaborating-takes-many-forms-livemusic-recording/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Collaborating Takes Many Forms – #LiveMusic #Recording #creativeprocess https://muz4now.com/2026/collaborating-takes-many-forms-livemusic-recording

Collaborating in any art form is incredibly rewarding. Musician Stan Stewart shares the forms working with other artists might take. #CreativeProcess #Collaborating

https://muz4now.com/2026/collaborating-takes-many-forms-livemusic-recording/

playing with feelings in improvisation – InterPlayful #creativeprocess #improv #improvisation #piano #spontaneous #Improv #MusicPoetryandMore https://muz4now.com/2018/playing-with-feelings-interplayful

Why Your Creative Project Never Turns Out the Way You Plan #creativeprocess #creativity #CreativeInsights https://muz4now.com/2020/why-your-creative-project-never-turns-out-way-you-plan

Expectations For A Creative Challenge #creativeprocess #improv #piano #CreativeInsights https://muz4now.com/2018/expectations-creative-challenge

Pain Chain and Releasing the Brain #creativeprocess #creativity #CreativeInsights https://muz4now.com/2018/pain-chain-releasing-brain

don’t get ahead of yourself #creativeprocess #creativity #musician #sing #singing #CreativeInsights https://muz4now.com/2016/dont-get-ahead-of-yourself

Too Much In The Creative Pipeline? #creativeprocess #creativity #CreativeInsights https://muz4now.com/2026/too-much-in-the-creative-pipeline

Singing Grief: What’s It Take To Make A Pandemic Choir? #creativeprocess #musicianresources #recording #CreativeInsights #MusicianTips https://muz4now.com/2021/singing-grief-whats-it-take-to-make-a-pandemic-choir

Composing Detours - How Pauses Help Creativity #creativity #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2021/composing-detours-how-pauses-help-creativity/

How Shall We Sing A Song In a Foreign Land? I was inspired by instruments of Iran to create a musical suite. Here's the story... #CreativeProcess #PersianInstruments

https://muz4now.com/2026/how-shall-we-sing-a-song-in-a-foreign-land/

Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation #CreativeProcess #MusicTheory

https://muz4now.com/2025/creating-through-limitations-scales-of-creation/

Oh, That I Might Create a Singular Thing #composing #creativeprocess https://muz4now.com/2026/oh-that-i-might-create-a-singular-thing

Quick Creative Process: The Long and the Short of It #artist #creativeprocess #creativity #MusicianTips https://muz4now.com/2018/quick-creative-process-long-short

Muse As Magnet – Why I Compose and Write #creativeprocess #creativity #inspiration #muse #MusicPoetryandMore https://muz4now.com/2018/muse-magnet-why-compose-write

Putting together “the band” … or 2 of them #composing #creativeprocess #CreativeInsights #MusicianTips https://muz4now.com/2026/putting-together-the-band-or-2-of-them

Recording Studio Changes and Progress – #recordingstudio #creativeprocess #recording #studio #MusicPoetryandMore #MusicianTips https://muz4now.com/2025/recording-studio-changes-and-progress-recordingstudio

When One Quartet Is Not Enough – Of 2s, 3s, and 4s #creativeprocess #MusicRelease #Music https://muz4now.com/2026/when-one-quartet-is-not-enough-of-2s-3s-and-4s

Putting together “the band” … or 2 of them #composing #creativeprocess #CreativeInsights #MusicianTips

https://muz4now.com/2026/putting-together-the-band-or-2-of-them

#Music #creativeprocess When One Quartet Is Not Enough – Of 2s, 3s, and 4s https://muz4now.com/2026/when-one-quartet-is-not-enough-of-2s-3s-and-4s/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

When One Quartet Is Not Enough – Of 2s, 3s, and 4s #creativeprocess #musicrelease https://muz4now.com/2026/when-one-quartet-is-not-enough-of-2s-3s-and-4s

Is This What You Call Progress? #CreativeProcess #guitar #hope #singing #songwriter https://muz4now.com/2025/is-this-what-you-call-progress-creativeprocess

“Ritual & Mayhem” by the numbers #composing #creativeprocess #music https://muz4now.com/2025/ritual-mayhem-by-the-numbers

Putting together “the band” … or 2 of them #composing #creativeprocess https://muz4now.com/2026/putting-together-the-band-or-2-of-them

What happens when one recording project calls for not one, but two bands? Stan Stewart explores the battle of his bands. #Composing #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2026/putting-together-the-band-or-2-of-them/

Composing Detours – How Pauses Help Creativity #creativeprocess https://muz4now.com/2021/composing-detours-how-pauses-help-creativity

Singing Grief: What’s It Take To Make A Pandemic Choir? #creativeprocess #musicianresources #recording https://muz4now.com/2021/singing-grief-whats-it-take-to-make-a-pandemic-choir

Recording Studio Changes and Progress – #recordingstudio #creativeprocess #recording #studio https://muz4now.com/2025/recording-studio-changes-and-progress-recordingstudio

ICYMI: Is This What You Call Progress? #CreativeProcess https://muz4now.com/2025/is-this-what-you-call-progress-creativeprocess/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now%2Fmagazine%2FThe%20muse%20is%20present&utm_medium=mastodon

Too Much In The Creative Pipeline? Thoughts on having too many inspirations... #creativity #CreativeProcess https://muz4now.com/2026/too-much-in-the-creative-pipeline/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Creative Doldrums – Don’t Let Them Fool You

#creativeprocess #creativity

https://muz4now.com/2021/creative-doldrums-dont-let-them-fool-you

Is This What You Call Progress? #CreativeProcess https://muz4now.com/2025/is-this-what-you-call-progress-creativeprocess/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now%2Fmagazine%2FThe%20muse%20is%20present&utm_medium=mastodon

Too Much In The Creative Pipeline? #creativeprocess #creativity https://muz4now.com/2026/too-much-in-the-creative-pipeline

What’s in the works? How to keep moving even when it hurts #brokenankle #creativeprocess #inspiration #muse #musician https://muz4now.com/2024/whats-in-the-works-how-to-keep-moving-even-when-it-hurts

Recording Studio Changes and Progress – #recordingstudio #creativeprocess #recording #studio https://muz4now.com/2025/recording-studio-changes-and-progress-recordingstudio

what’s love got to do with it #artist #creativeprocess #improv #improvisation #musicbiz #musician #now #poet #presentmoment https://muz4now.com/2011/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it

Creating Through Limitations – Scales of Creation #creativeprocess #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2025/creating-through-limitations-scales-of-creation

Creating Through Limitations – Scales of Creation #creativeprocess #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2025/creating-through-limitations-scales-of-creation

Musician Esther Rose on questioning your path and forging new ones #creativity #CreativeProcess

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-esther-rose-on-questioning-your-path-and-forging-new-ones/

“Ritual & Mayhem” by the numbers #composing #creativeprocess #music https://muz4now.com/2025/ritual-mayhem-by-the-numbers

Quick Creative Process: The Long and the Short of It #creativity #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2018/quick-creative-process-long-short/

Recording Studio Changes and Progress – #recordingstudio #creativeprocess #recording #studio

https://muz4now.com/2025/recording-studio-changes-and-progress-recordingstudio

Is This What You Call Progress? #CreativeProcess #guitar #hope #singing #songwriter https://muz4now.com/2025/is-this-what-you-call-progress-creativeprocess

A few years ago, I released my life story in song: "Dream This". Here's some of what helped make that happen... Snow Story - music technology behind the song #CreativeProcess #MusicTech

https://muz4now.com/2017/snow-story-music-technology-behind-song/

Return of the Light Beings #artist #creativeprocess #creativity #dance #inspiration #muse https://muz4now.com/2012/return-of-the-light-beings

What’s in the works? How to keep moving even when it hurts #brokenankle #creativeprocess #inspiration #muse #musician https://muz4now.com/2024/whats-in-the-works-how-to-keep-moving-even-when-it-hurts

Creating Through Limitations – Scales of Creation #creativeprocess #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2025/creating-through-limitations-scales-of-creation

Is This What You Call Progress? #CreativeProcess https://muz4now.com/2025/is-this-what-you-call-progress-creativeprocess/

Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2025/creating-through-limitations-scales-of-creation/

Escape May Be An Option - Ritual Escape #CreativeProcess #Composing

https://muz4now.com/2025/escape-may-be-an-option-ritual-escape/

Singer-songwriter, model, and writer Indigo Sparke on abandoning a timeline (Yeah, I can relate.) #creativity #CreativeProcess

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/singer-songwriter-model-and-writer-indigo-sparke-on-abandoning-a-timeline/

Staying On Track - Detours Galore #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2025/staying-on-track-detours-galore/

Symphony of Creation: Understanding What It Takes To Compose #composing #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2024/symphony-of-creation-understanding-what-it-takes-to-compose/

Is This What You Call Progress? #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2025/is-this-what-you-call-progress-creativeprocess/

Recording Studio Changes and Progress – #recordingstudio #creativeprocess #recording #studio https://muz4now.com/2025/recording-studio-changes-and-progress-recordingstudio

“Ritual & Mayhem” by the numbers #composing #creativeprocess #music https://muz4now.com/2025/ritual-mayhem-by-the-numbers

When In Doubt (Or Certainty), Improvise (part 5 of 5) #CreativeProcess #improvisation

https://muz4now.com/2012/when-in-doubt-or-certainty-improvise/

The stranger in "Wayfaring" unmasked #CreativeProcess #WayfaringStranger

https://muz4now.com/2025/the-stranger-in-wayfaring-unmasked/

"Ritual & Mayhem" by the numbers #CreativeProcess #composing

https://muz4now.com/2025/ritual-mayhem-by-the-numbers/

“Ritual & Mayhem” by the numbers #composer #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2025/ritual-mayhem-by-the-numbers/

Tracking The Toughest of All - Singing Vulnerability #RecordingStudio #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2025/tracking-the-toughest-of-all-singing-vulnerability/

"Found" Music In The Musician's Dustbin #CreativeProcess #RecordingStudio

https://muz4now.com/2025/found-music-in-the-musicians-dustbin/

Hanging In There #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2019/hanging-in-there-creative-process/

Healing Inergy - inward energy and recovery #CreativeProcess #HealingMusic

https://muz4now.com/2024/healing-inergy-inward-energy-and-recovery/

Ready for what? And some tech talk #MusicianTips #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2025/ready-for-what-and-some-tech-talk/

"Found" Music In The Musician's Dustbin

• I had forgotten about the musical ponderings from an earlier session... #CreativeProcess #RecordingStudio https://muz4now.com/2025/found-music-in-the-musicians-dustbin/

Hanging In There #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2019/hanging-in-there-creative-process/

Staying On Track - Detours Galore #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2025/staying-on-track-detours-galore/

Quick Creative Process: The Long and the Short of It #creativity #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2018/quick-creative-process-long-short/

It's always easy to find distractions. So how can we stay on track? #CreativeProcess #creativity

https://muz4now.com/2025/staying-on-track-detours-galore/

Healing Love - the best remedy for body and soul #CreativeProcess #Healing

https://muz4now.com/2024/healing-love-the-best-remedy-for-body-and-soul/

Integrity, Self-discovery, and Self-deceit #creativity #CreativeProcess #BeBetter

https://muz4now.com/2019/integrity-self-discovery-self-deceit-creativity/

I've Got Some Explaining To Do #CreativeProcess #Plugins #Heart

https://muz4now.com/2024/ive-got-some-explaining-to-do/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I've Got Some Explaining To Do #CreativeProcess #Plugins #Heart

https://muz4now.com/2024/ive-got-some-explaining-to-do/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I've Got Some Explaining To Do #CreativeProcess #Plugins #Heart

https://muz4now.com/2024/ive-got-some-explaining-to-do/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Drifting" the musical piece and the creative process #CreativeProcess #OriginalMusic

https://muz4now.com/2024/drifting-the-piece-and-the-process/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Artists tend to delay their own reward. #artist #creativeprocess

https://muz4now.com/2021/release-and-procrastination-life-and-artistry/

"Drifting" the musical piece and the creative process #CreativeProcess #OriginalMusic

https://muz4now.com/2024/drifting-the-piece-and-the-process/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Drifting" the musical piece and the creative process #CreativeProcess #OriginalMusic

https://muz4now.com/2024/drifting-the-piece-and-the-process/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Healing Inergy - inward energy and recovery #CreativeProcess #NewMusic

https://muz4now.com/2024/healing-inergy-inward-energy-and-recovery/

Many things demand our attention – creative time can’t always be top priority #CreativeProcess #MusicianLife

https://muz4now.com/2024/healing-inergy-inward-energy-and-recovery/

Thunderstorm - a (perhaps strange) creative process story #CreativeProcess #Story

https://muz4now.com/2020/thunderstorm-perhaps-strange-creative-process-story/

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far #creativity #CreativeProcess

https://muz4now.com/2024/meditations-on-pushing-a-creative-project-too-far/