I view a studio as a place of work, design, experimentation, and play. It is a place where, if one does all of these things well and is both patient and fortunate, some art might come out of it.
“Non Troppo” is Italian for “not too much.” There are a lot of things that are troppo in our world, but we also as a species have a tendency to overdo generally. We work too hard, play in self-destructive ways, and worry a lot. One of the instructions I have always loved seeing in a musical score is “non troppo.” Allegro non troppo means “fast, but not too fast,” for example.
There’s a healthy sense of trust in an instruction like that. Trust that the musician reading the score really does know what’s right and will care enough to do what’s right.
I started Studio Non Troppo in this spirit, feeling that work, art, and life are players in the same ecosystem. We’ve seen enough of troppo; let’s see where non troppo can take us.