Reflecting on 2024: A Year of Changes

Reflecting on 2024: A Year of Changes

2024 was a year a tremendous changes for my life, and all that change seemed to have drained my creativity completely. Brian and I decided in mid 2023 that we would become expats (somewhere), and finally decided on France. We didn’t do the...
Arthur Breur on Zeitgeist Radio Podcast

Arthur Breur on Zeitgeist Radio Podcast

Arthur Breur was the guest on episode 26 of the Zeitgeist Radio Podcast with host Morgan Roe. Links to the Podcast Apple Podcasts Spotify Summary Arthur Breur is a composer, pianist, and host of the Melodology Podcast. We discuss his unique approach to creativity, his...
Introducing Amber the Ambitious Spider!

Introducing Amber the Ambitious Spider!

As many of you know, in addition to being a composer, I’m also a writer. On that note, I’m excited to announce that I have created a delightful new character – Amber the Ambitious Spider! In the video below I share the real-life experience that...
Arthur Breur presents on the 2022 Ultimate Music Business Summit

Arthur Breur presents on the 2022 Ultimate Music Business Summit

Arthur Breur is joining other music business subject experts presenting January 6 – 8, 2022 in the 2022 Ultimate Music Business Summit (www.MusicSummit.biz). This year, he will be presenting with fellow composers Lisa Neher and Garrett Hope, discussing creating...
Other People’s Money… Knots

Other People’s Money… Knots

I recently experienced an interesting “money knot” situation that I thought other composers (and artists in general) might find value in. First, a little bit of my own history. I have composed music my entire life, and I consider it my best talent and skill. But I...
The Meddler

The Meddler

Like many artists, I’ve struggled all my life with my own self image and with self-defeating behaviors. In the past eight years or so, I’ve been gradually moving myself back into composing and performing, with increasing success—but also with increasing...
Art Is Business: Why I Joined a Chamber of Commerce

Art Is Business: Why I Joined a Chamber of Commerce

I’ve been a composer most of my life, and a business owner for 15 years—I started “Breur Media Corporation” in July of 2001, and rebranded it as FireSpike LLC in 2013. Most of those years, the company has belonged to some business organization or...
My Grandmother Jocelyn Would Be Proud

My Grandmother Jocelyn Would Be Proud

When we lose a loved one, we often redirect the emotion invested in that person into other areas of our lives.  In my case, this happened very clearly upon the loss of my grandmother Jocelyn. Jocelyn was my paternal grandfather’s second wife. They were divorced...
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