Eric Whitmer

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Audacious is amazing.

on Diversity with Alphabet Rockers & Vivian Fang Liu

On Diversity with Alphabet Rockers & Vivian Fang Liu

on Funk The Earth

On Mood Food

on The Ballad Of Phineas McBoof Stage Musical

A special version of Konshens & The Earth Band’s Shine— a Top 5 Hit on Sirius XM Kids Place Live from our Funk The Earth album — was performed as part of the Concert in Celebration of the 76th Anniversary of the United Nations today for UN Day. We hope it brings a shine to…

In the Palo Alto Weekly

On what he learned teaching at Pinewood School

The theatrical premiere of The Ballad of Phineas McBoof happened when the Palo Alto Children’s Theatre commissioned me to write a musical based on my first two Doctor Noize albums and books. I received the commission for my first stage work for kids right as my own daughters were starting to get cast as leads…

On Palo Alto Children’s Theater’s Production of The Ballad Of Phineas McBoof

All the Doctor Noize albums are actually works of musical theatre. I’ve always said that the reason I got into this is kids deserve to learn longform works — things that challenge them to explore the connections between things, and get them to explore their creativity, and think about sophisticated things for more than three…

People who love what they do are awesome. It is my honor to work with these people, not the other way around.

Find your song.

Music is a way of connecting and listening to each other. This is important more than ever in our current cultural climate. Last month, I played a show in Silicon Valley in San Jose, immediately followed by several shows in Wyoming — all in the same week. The music and message were the same, and…

Purpose matters.

To The European Business Review, on Phineas McBoof Crashes the Symphony

My work is not primarily designed to fit into a genre.  I am also obstinately fighting against the modern desire for everything to be in 2-3 minute songs and snippets. I love longform things. Things with time to evolve and develop. Even my work for kids as Doctor Noize is that way — every album…

Asynchronous & Live Recording Arts Education for Elementary School Age Children

KDVR FOX 31 & CW Channel 2

On Doctor Noize Symphony Shows

Kids are open to anything that is presented correctly to them. Classical, rock, jazz, John Tesh… Kids are fearless with their energy and focus. Adults are more complicated, trained by experience to always try to figure out what they SHOULD do or like; kids can still respond to their curiosity without bias. So actually, in…

The funniest thing about being a kids” musician is that I’ll play a show in a 500-seat auditorium and the next day it will be an acoustic show in a library. As a musician, you have to be ready to do anything and just show up out of dedication to the cause.

On Phineas McBoof Crashes the Symphony

The nice thing about the shows, as compared to a movie or recording, is that each one is a little different. I loop-record songs live on the spot at my shows, adding various instruments and bringing members of the audience up to record things into the loop.

Follow their lead and don’t squelch it. Let your kids open your minds to new things. Don’t be afraid to be ridiculous. Don’t think certain musical genres are too deep or serious for your child, they’re not. Remember that your child has a greater capacity for learning than us old people do, but we can…

I just wanted to make the kind of recordings and books that I would like my kids to check out. And, aside from Dr. Seuss, those didn’t really exist — certainly on the recording side. The kind of musical theater for kids things that I wanted to share with my kids… they didn’t really exist…

Kids these days are exploring a lot of different media — they’re into recordings, they’re into apps, hopefully they’re into books, we have animated videos on the site, and I like to go in and do teaching workshops too. If you are doing something that hopefully has inspiring and educating qualities for kids, it’s a…

Too many times we think our kids just need to be distracted or entertained. And too many things are organized around the concept that assumes that our kids have a two-minute attention span.

Everything I do as Doctor Noize is basically informed by those five years that I had teaching high school and junior high music.

My experience as a teacher and as a parent is that kids are not only more educated, but they are also more *happy* and engaged when they’re actually doing things that they know are actually building real knowledge and skills and value and passion for something larger into their world.

Kids are much more intellectual and creative than adults are. NEWSFLASH!!! They will go with you if you tell a story.

Stanford Magazine

I decided to go big or go home. I want to treat kids with the respect that I think they deserve. I think kids are the most adventurous audience in the world.

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On Phineas McBoof Crashes the Symphony

On Mood Food’s Second Single

On Mood Food’s Second Single

On Mood Food with Danny Darko Marciano of The Microphone Doctors

On Mood Food with Danny Darko Marciano of The Microphone Doctors

On Mood Food with Danny Darko Marciano of The Microphone Doctors

Beethoven, Berlioz, Stravinsky — these guys were crazy revolutionaries! I knew if I could get kids curious, they would be hooked. And they are! They realize that the music is rebellious, deep, magnificent beyond conventional imagination. After the premiere of Phineas McBoof Crashes the Symphony, a teacher told me that kids walked in not caring…