Greetings XCI #2 - Wayland Academy
Greetings XCI #2 - Wayland Academy Greetings XCI #2 - Wayland Academy
alumniartists manifest and create, the more you grow as a human being. We must embrace life and all its colors. We must embrace the toils and struggles as well as the joy and the bliss. The strongest trees are the ones that have survived storms and drought and rains and winds... Creativity is our life force. So, I, as a singer, invite spirit in, listen, materialize breath and tone into melodies and then find ways to share it, in concerts and on CDs. Then I get to start all over again. It is a crazy work. I sell breath and emotion and heart and inspiration. Who would have thought it possible? The next circle is coaching. I dedicate time each week to help others reach their highest state of creativity. It grounds me and helps me remember where I came from. My clients are singers, TV stars, doctors, teachers, healers, psychologists, architects, press secretaries, and the lot. Everyone who has done the core voice alignment training I offer discovers within a very short time something very simple. CORE ALIGNMENT VOICE WORK not only harmonizes us within our 12 wayland academy greetings own system, strengthening our immune systems and giving sound to our inner voice, it also harmonizes us with our environment. With our world. It teaches us to trust and articulate our needs. I have seen clients make huge jumps in their career and personal lives due to a clarity that arises when they are in alignment with who they are. I also am happy that when they leave, they leave with song in their heart and an understanding of the power of human language. Sound and language can lift us up or destroy us. Song is a powerful tool which must be used consciously. There is no greater joy than that of a parent or a teacher. When you have helped a person shine, you know that you have done something good for this world. Now the bigger picture — or as I like to see it the outer rings — is my new Essence Radio Show, which airs five hours weekly. The show is personal, spiritual, authentic, and celebrates my deep belief in Global Mind and Global Heart. I have fans from Israel, Palestine, Argentina, Japan, Australia, Germany, Ghana, Brazil, America, and Canada. The musicians are all top, and I strongly and consciously play voices and sounds from all corners of the world so that we realize and wake up to the fact that we are one humanity, and the only force that can bring peace to our world is the force of unconditional love. Greetings: Your Web site has tons of information and material available to fans, a radio show available around the world, and you have over 11,000 Myspace friends! Clearly you’re plugged in. Do you have a big hand in managing your online presence? KJ: I do have a big hand in management. After a few field trips with major labels, I realized that for me the word freedom comes with great responsibility. I am proudly an independent artist and I am closely connected to my fans. I manage all my productions and oversee everything I create. The only way that online presence works is if it is personal. It is very rewarding to see that my fans do care and want to support me.
Greetings: Is the web something you’re glad to have, or is it just something you have to deal with as a professional musician in the modern age? KJ: The web has been very instrumental in my career. I think it is revolutionizing our world. It is exciting to be able to do studio work in Tokyo or Rome or Iceland without ever having met the producers physically or needing to fly in and stay in hotels, etc. It is possible for someone to send me a track online and to send them back the final recording within a day. It is also possible to be on Skype and send over an idea, watch the guitarist play what you just sent him in his living room. His mother brings in a tea, you smile on the other side of the Atlantic as you work on a new song idea and think, wow, my ancestors came by boat to America, and I can now simultaneously be teleconferencing all over the globe. I produce the radio show at my desk in Berlin and the station is in Brooklyn. That is the Internet. Greetings: As an artist and voice coach, looking back, what lessons did you take away from your time at Wayland? What experiences were formative here? KJ: Ah, I do love my years at Wayland. These words popped into my head. Discipline. Yes, I enjoyed studying and the clear structure, and without having learned that, I would not be able to produce at the level I do. Community, I still have strong memories of eating together at round tables. Strange, but it is the round tables I remember and that the teachers sat with us. I had many good talks with teachers that shared their perspectives with me and inspired me to ask questions. The last, of course, is music. I had always sung, but at Wayland I spent hours in my free time sitting in the chapel basement and singing and playing. A dear friend of mine (whom I have somehow lost touch with) Thomas E. Park shared with me all of the songs from Broadway and jazz that I didn’t know. I had grown up in a small town in Wisconsin. He was a big city boy from Chicago. At Wayland he opened to me a new world of song and music. It was at Wayland that the path became clear that I was an artist, and I continued on that path for the rest of my life. So, dear Wayland, I thank you. To learn more about Kara Johnstad, visit www.karajohnstad.com Listen to Kara’s radio program at www.myspace.com/theessenceshow Watch videos of Kara performing on the Greetings Web site at www.wayland.org/alumni/publications.cfm Photo credits Joerg Grosse-Geldermann Stephan Eich Jantje Müller Joerg Grosse-Geldermann www.wayland.org 13 ALUMNI ARTISTS
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<strong>Greetings</strong>: Is the web something<br />
you’re glad to have, or is it just<br />
something you have to deal with as a<br />
professional musician in the modern<br />
age?<br />
KJ: The web has been very<br />
instrumental in my career. I think it is<br />
revolutionizing our world. It is exciting<br />
to be able to do studio work in Tokyo<br />
or Rome or Iceland without ever<br />
having met the producers physically or<br />
needing to fly in and stay in hotels, etc.<br />
It is possible for someone to send me a<br />
track online and to send them back the<br />
final recording within a day. It is also<br />
possible to be on Skype and send over<br />
an idea, watch the guitarist play what<br />
you just sent him in his living room.<br />
His mother brings in a tea, you smile<br />
on the other side of the Atlantic as you<br />
work on a new song idea and think,<br />
wow, my ancestors came by boat to<br />
America, and I can now<br />
simultaneously be teleconferencing all<br />
over the globe. I produce the radio<br />
show at my desk in Berlin and the<br />
station is in Brooklyn. That is the<br />
Internet.<br />
<strong>Greetings</strong>: As an artist and voice<br />
coach, looking back, what lessons did<br />
you take away from your time at<br />
<strong>Wayland</strong>? What experiences were<br />
formative here?<br />
KJ: Ah, I do love my years at<br />
<strong>Wayland</strong>. These words popped into my<br />
head. Discipline. Yes, I enjoyed<br />
studying and the clear structure, and<br />
without having learned that, I would<br />
not be able to produce at the level I do.<br />
Community, I still have strong<br />
memories of eating together at round<br />
tables. Strange, but it is the round<br />
tables I remember and that the<br />
teachers sat with us. I had many good<br />
talks with teachers that shared their<br />
perspectives with me and inspired me<br />
to ask questions.<br />
The last, of course, is music. I had<br />
always sung, but at <strong>Wayland</strong> I spent<br />
hours in my free time sitting in the<br />
chapel basement and singing and<br />
playing. A dear friend of mine (whom<br />
I have somehow lost touch with)<br />
Thomas E. Park shared with me all of<br />
the songs from Broadway and jazz that<br />
I didn’t know. I had grown up in a<br />
small town in Wisconsin. He was a big<br />
city boy from Chicago. At <strong>Wayland</strong> he<br />
opened to me a new world of song and<br />
music. It was at <strong>Wayland</strong> that the path<br />
became clear that I was an artist, and I<br />
continued on that path for the rest of<br />
my life. So, dear <strong>Wayland</strong>, I thank you.<br />
To learn more about Kara Johnstad,<br />
visit www.karajohnstad.com<br />
Listen to Kara’s radio program at<br />
www.myspace.com/theessenceshow<br />
Watch videos of Kara performing<br />
on the <strong>Greetings</strong> Web site at<br />
www.wayland.org/alumni/publications.cfm<br />
Photo credits<br />
Joerg Grosse-Geldermann<br />
Stephan Eich<br />
Jantje Müller<br />
Joerg Grosse-Geldermann<br />
www.wayland.org 13<br />
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