If you will indulge me, take the time to take a look at John Cage's short 1972 essay, "How the Piano Came to be Prepared." In it, John Cage makes the most of an odd performance situation, and his experimentation and creative thinking led to the creation of some of the coolest concepts in extended piano technique today. This agile thinking is a skill I really admire and hope to be able to use one day to make some awesome music.
In addition to looking around in the present at different genres of music and into the unknown for inspiration on what to do in the future, I'm finding so much inspiration in the past for ways to spice up and find myself in my music-making. Ever since the beginning of music-making, musicians have been expanding on and changing existing concepts and creating completely new things; this spirit of innovation has always existed-- it's part of being human-- and the journey to finding this spirit within each and every one of us will be different for each of us, and that journey is where all the fun is!
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