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I'll be taking my last exam on Friday and then I will have completed my undergraduate degree.  This is quite a completion seeing that I took a substantial gap between my junior and senior year, enough time to get married a couple of times and have a couple of kids.  Well, alas I have done it and it feels good.  I've enjoyed my short return to college and came to realize that Architecture is not my passion, too logic-orientated, too rigid.  I am an artist, visual and sonic.  I've produced lots of visual work in many different mediums, abstract to hyper-realistic but over the last decade Ive been enamoured with music.  Ive written about 100 songs, recorded some of them, played them out with a band and have loved every moment of the process.  I want to make as much time as possible for  musical artistic collaboration.  This class has been a sweet way to end my last Architectural Degree Requirement especially since it was an art/music class instead of studio (yeah!).  Tony, thank you for choosing to run this class despite your difficult circumstances.  It has been an honor to witness you in this life changing event.  Where's your studio?  I wanna drop by sometime.

harmony

I've learned so many rules about what to do and what not to do but the reality is we just do what we do. 
In theory I found it difficult to understand what the rules meant, but when I put it into practice and heard the results it began to make sense.  However the ear of the rule maker was so distant from my sonic sensibilities that although I appreciated the simple, solid beauty I was more drawn to a dark, allusive beauty.  I use the rules occasionally but usually I break them.