Ongoing experiments in jazz, learning, and design

Current focus

Jazz Interactive

Jazz Interactive is an effort to build a more compelling environment for learning jazz through interaction, structure, and modern learning design. Rather than presenting jazz theory as static information, the project imagines a platform where learners can explore ideas, listen actively, manipulate concepts, and encounter the music through experiences that feel alive.

The project matters because too much educational material either feels dry and over-explained or polished but shallow. Jazz Interactive aims for something better: depth with clarity, structure without deadness, and tools that help people understand without turning music into a spreadsheet.

In development

Interactive theory tools

This line of work focuses on specific tools that make jazz ideas more graspable. These may include chord maps, interval systems, progression explorers, or guided practice interfaces that let people see and hear how concepts behave. The larger aim is not novelty for its own sake. It is educational usefulness with enough design quality that people actually want to stay inside the experience.

Ongoing

Media and teaching experiments

Some ideas do not begin as full platforms. They begin as smaller tests: a visual explanation, a better practice aid, a redesigned teaching sequence, a cleaner way to present a difficult concept, or a prototype that asks whether a different interface might help someone finally understand what used to feel abstract. These experiments are where many larger ideas earn the right to grow.