{"id":4210,"date":"2011-06-09T12:06:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2011-07-08T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T19:42:19","slug":"rick-cutler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/people\/rick-cutler\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Cutler: Dancing with the Transcendent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rick Cutler<\/a> is certainly well traveled in the world of music. Playing both keyboard and drums from an early age, he graduated from the Julliard School of Music, studied with the jazz great Chick Corea<\/a>, performed in multiple Broadway shows, such as Hair, The Wiz, and Candide, played alongside the likes of Herbie Hancock<\/a>, Leonard Bernstein<\/a>, and countless others, and received an Emmy nomination for his work on the theme of Dateline NBC. For 18 years, he served as keyboardist & musical director for tap dance legend Gregory Hines. <\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object> Rick Cutler – First Melancholy Then The Night Stretch – Isle Of Words Forgotten<\/a> by Crossover Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

As a musician, Rick knows what is like to be in the groove. \u201cYou\u2019re not thinking while you\u2019re playing. You\u2019re not analyzing your improvisations. When you\u2019re playing, it just flows out of you. You\u2019re just in the moment.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"rick-cutler\"Despite playing music everyday, Cutler craved a similar feeling of clarity and wholeness in his daily life while not playing. He learned the Transcendental Meditation<\/a> technique in 1985 but says he got especially inspired to meditate regularly when he read David Lynch\u2019s <\/a>book, Catching the Big Fish<\/a><\/em>. \u201cHis description of the importance of diving within really resonated with me,\u201d Rick says. \u201cI\u2019ve always been a spiritual seeker. There wasn\u2019t anything directly related to music that spurred me to want to meditate. There was just a desire to go within and get to that deep silence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then he noticed how his regular TM practice has had an impact on his music.<\/p>\n

\u201cI put out a CD<\/a> in January and am currently writing another one. Since I started practicing TM regularly, it\u2019s like there has been a waterfall of music pouring out, an experience I haven\u2019t had since the \u201870s.\u201d <\/p>\n

He has also noticed increased clarity and creativity in his music:<\/p>\n

\u201c[Playing music] puts me in almost a different state of consciousness. I\u2019m dancing with my transcendent Self. And through meditating, your ability to take advantage of that heightened level of creativity increases. It is 100% you.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\nThis article was written by Oliver Lazarus who is a senior in high school in Washington, DC. He will be starting college next year at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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