Find new inspiration with these time-tested approaches to creativity | Anthony Brandt

- Beethovan and Picasso are the perfect examples for mastering the creative process.

- Behind each of their works are countless studies and sketches.

- The lesson? Never erase anything, keep iterating, and find new paths to familiar destinations.

Anthony Brandt is a composer and professor at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. He is also Artistic Director of the contemporary music ensemble Musiqa, winner of two Adventurous Programming Awards from Chamber Music America and ASCAP. Brandt has received a Koussevitzky Commission from the Library of Congress and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet-the-Composer and the Houston Arts Alliance. He has co-authored papers on music cognition published in the journals Frontiers and Brain Connectivity. Brandt has written two chamber operas and works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, dance, theater, film, television, and sound and art installations. He currently lives in Houston with his wife and children. His latest book is The Runaway Species: How human creativity remakes the world (https://amzn.to/2IvD6PT)

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