Most of the muscles in our body are situated into antagonistic pairs to bring balance of movement and hold our skeleton in place. As one muscle flexes another muscle relaxes. I find the same pairing between the 'head' and the 'heart' when it comes to the labor of creative work. Music for me can start in the head and move to the heart or vice versa. Then there are the rare times it finds a balance between the two. Lately I have been fascinated with reverse engineering influential songs from other artists. Excising the emotion from the lyrics, cataloging each chord from the progression and investigating its core elements separately as a biologist would a cadaver. Then I put these songs back together with my musical faculties and my emotional core. Hopefully breathing life back into what I dismantled...