I started mosaicland.com in 2008 to share my creative perspective and to help guitar players become better musicians. Mosaicland.com draws on my diverse experience as a performer (guitar, gamelan, kacapi, and glass instruments), composer (film, ensemble music), online & Royal Conservatory guitar teacher, and fiction writer. I feature an eclectic mix of musical influences and offer free guitar lessons, free musicianship lessons, and free music history lessons, all with a focus of how to be more creative and a better musician.

Mosaicland.com features music books and audio and includes occasional posts related to my non-musical life.

The idea for this website grew out from an earlier desire I had to create an interdisciplinary art center, when I was doing my Masters at Simon Fraser University in 1993. The centre had two main policies: to present all kinds of art, to generate enough money to support the less commercial productions.

I know, as an artist, the most difficult aspect to sustaining one’s artistic life is generating interest and support, which, at some point down the line, translates to revenue. The design of the centre would include a theatre for plays and readings, a cinema, a concert hall, a gallery for visual art, etc. But most important to its design would be space for businesses (a café, bar, restaurant, bookstore, convenience store, etc.) whose revenue would contribute to making the centre a feasible enterprise.