Fun Stuff and Useful Media
Just between us, here are some of the less-formal projects, links, and useful tools that have helped Founder Bill in his journey, as well as guidance you might find useful on yours.
The Saturday in the Park Public Sing-Along
If you’ve yet experience the benefits of singing in public without the pressure of performance perfection, this is for you.
If you’re interested in becoming a part of this ongoing experiment in public music for health, please join our Facebook group.
Bill Protzmann’s Speaker Intro and Short Bio
Useful for many reasons – links to PR pics are included
What’s Bill Doing Now?
Play, read, listen, enjoy — just so you know what’s currently on Founder Bill’s music desk
Bill’s Musimorphic Journey on Substack
You’ll find the ongoing Musimorphic blog here, as well as several eBooks and lots of links to the online world of Musimorphic.
Resources for the Former “Suicide Without Judgment” Meetup Group
For a while, Bill led a Meetup group for people who, like him, can experience suicidal ideation. Here you will find the Resources page for that group.
The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address
Every Monday at 11:11am PT, we read this Address online for anyone who wants to attend. It takes about 20 minutes, and it is a practice that, as the Onondaga Faithkeeper Oren Lyons has said, “We’ve been waiting for 500 years for people to listen. If they’d understood the Thanksgiving then, we wouldn’t be in this mess.”
To join the reading, click the link above. Download your free copy of the Words. Stay up to date with the regular readings on our Facebook group.
A Brief History
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the Iroquois Confederacy or the Six Nations, is one of the oldest participatory democracies in the world. It was established by the Peacemaker (Dekanawida), a visionary leader, with the assistance of Hiawatha, a skilled orator. The Confederacy united five nations—the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca—around the 12th to 15th centuries, with the Tuscarora joining later in the 18th century.
The Confederacy was formed to end cycles of inter-tribal violence among these nations and promote peace, unity, and shared governance. The Peacemaker introduced the Great Law of Peace, a constitution that outlined principles of collective decision-making, mutual respect, and harmony. The governance system operates through a council of clan leaders (sachems), representing each nation, where decisions are made by consensus.
The unification under the Haudenosaunee Confederacy set a model for democratic governance and significantly influenced later political systems, including aspects of the U.S. Constitution.
Get your copy of the Words at this link: The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address – The Words That Come Before All Else
Music Quest Discovery
This one-hour experiential video leads you through a practice of understanding how music can be used to release grief and open space for other emotions.
The Plutchik Wheel of Emotions
Understanding emotions, even having language for them(!), are essential to a practical practice of music. This wheel is used extensively in Musimorphic. There are others: Dr Brené Brown has done extensive work in the area of emotion, and you may respond to music in ways that are more along Dr Brown’s lines of inquiry, more complex that what the simple Plutchik wheel can show you. There are also several wheels for neurodivergent people, including this one (presented as a facilitator guide with links to the “source” wheels, brand new in 2026). We also have an ongoing survey that might interest you as a kind of deeper dive into your own responses to music.
Tension and Release in Music Over Time
The best music follows a predictable pathway, whether in a phrase, a single song, or an entire symphony. It’s no mistake that the same pathway exists in the best literature, theatre, and cinema.
