by Kabir Sehgal | Sep 13, 2026 | Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 375 words. Creative work rarely starts full-time. It starts in the margins. Anthony Trollope was a Post Office civil servant who rose early to write before work, measuring his output in 15-minute blocks. Walker Evans took night jobs so he could...
by Kabir Sehgal | Sep 6, 2026 | Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 353 words. Years ago, I spent months talking with a composer about scoring a video game. When the client finally gave the green light, he emailed to say he could no longer do it. On another project, after months of similar conversations, a...
by Kabir Sehgal | Aug 30, 2026 | Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 338 words. One of the most important pieces in music history was booed so loudly the dancers couldn’t hear the orchestra. At the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, people shouted, fought and caused enough chaos that the...
by Kabir Sehgal | Aug 23, 2026 | Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 330 words. Philip Larkin didn’t quit his librarian day job to become a great poet. He kept it for 30 years. Elizabeth Bishop never built her life around one prestigious institution. She moved between grants, teaching, fellowships and...
by Kabir Sehgal | Aug 16, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 390 words. I spent 100+ hours listening to, curating, and editing the Dalai Lama’s voice while making a meditation album. Someone asked me what the most useful thing I learned was. I answered immediately: “The enemy is your best...
by Kabir Sehgal | Aug 9, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 370 words. Making money in indie music is tough. A project might earn $100 from streaming in a year. So I have to be thoughtful about where my time goes. The number of artists and engineers I work with gets smaller every year. Not because...
by Kabir Sehgal | Aug 2, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 329 words. Folks tell me all the time: you do too much. But high output can lead to better results. Because every rep sharpens your instincts. Prince recorded 39 studio albums. He worked in studios, backstage, and hotel rooms. He captured ideas...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jul 26, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 322 words. More options can kill your creativity. Brian Eno recorded Another Green World with a limited set of synths and tape machines. In 1975, he and Peter Schmidt created Oblique Strategies, a deck of cards designed to force new creative...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jul 19, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 294 words. In 1941, Olivier Messiaen was a prisoner in a German POW camp. In a freezing barracks, using the instruments available, he composed and premiered his Quartet for the End of Time. The audience included prisoners and German guards. The...
by Kabir Sehgal | Jul 12, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 362 words. A few years ago, a country artist asked about my producer fees. I explained that I don’t charge fees. I also told him I probably wasn’t the right fit for his music. But he kept pushing. “But you must want something!”...
