About Creative Minds’ Music’s Musings

As Creative Minds’ Music’s Musings principal contributor, please allow me to share a little of my background and to introduce myself.

My name is Stan Owen, Jr.

My small business, Creative Minds’ Music, specializes in the production of custom audio and video for church, school, dance, and theater. My goal for Creative Minds’ Music’s Musings is to share music and video that I have produced and performed with background on the music, instruments and processes I used.

Regarding my small business‘ name – “Minds” is plural and “Minds’ ” is its possessive form. My choice of business name expresses my idea/notion that we/all are part of a single Mind/Energy, and that we contain the creative-portion of the Collective Creative Consciousness –God, The Great Spirit, or Whatever you call “It” (with a capital ‘I’).

That’s why I usually avoid trying to explain…

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With my mother as my teacher, I began studying the piano and music theory at the age of seven. My father did much to encourage progress in my studies—both musical and school-related. As an adolescent, my musical accomplishments were so consistently rewarding to me that I never sincerely considered any occupation or vocation, other than musical ones.

I attended Birmingham-Southern College (BSC, 69-70), the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH, 70-71), and then, Samford University (SU, Birmingham, AL, USA, 71-73). I graduated from Samford with a Bachelor’s degree in Music-Education with emphasis in piano-performance.

Thereafter, I spent ten years with music as my vocation – teaching music, tuning pianos, serving as church-organist, nightclub-band-musician, and performing as piano-soloist. These years were productive, but nearly ended in my starvation and financial ruin. Facing dire economic consequences, I went back to school, taking both undergraduate and graduate computer-science and software-engineering coursework at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) over a period of nearly ten years.

I began my 32-year software-engineering career at Intergraph Corporation (Huntsville, AL, USA) in 1985. During the years I worked there, until I retired in 2017 I worked in the area of digital cartography. The maps that Intergraph customers make/made are used by civilian and military mapping-agencies and public-safety dispatch agencies in the US and throughout the world. Over the years, I led software development and maintenance teams of various sizes. As a part of this work, I was greatly enriched by highly effective, cooperative work with team-members in Hyderabad, India.

I welcome your comments and requests. Please use the confidential email form below to contact me to inquire and obtain details about custom musical accompaniments, performances, and audio/video productions. Your name, email content, and email address will not be posted online.

As I continue to add new material to Creative Minds’ Music’s Musings, please revisit  here to see what is new.

Regards,

Stan Owen, Jr.

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