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My name is Jodi. Welcome to my world. I'm nine years old and I am a music student. Specifically, I study piano and singing. This website was first launched when I was three and the internet was just about my favorite thing. So much has changed since then. The internet remains one of my very favorite things but my priorities are different. First and foremost, I am a singer, a pianist, a student of the arts. I also enjoy writing, storytelling, illustration. A collection of my stories, entitled "The Extremely Curious Adventures of Katie Silverbell" is now available as an iPhone app. You can download it free of charge in the iTunes store for your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. My blog consists of a number of very short illustrated stories that I've done. All were written and illustrated on the iPad, which is an amazing tool for creativity. I even use it as a "teleprompter" when I'm performing a song on the piano. I love to sing! Honestly, I sing all the time. I can't pay attention sometimes because I'm always softly singing something. I've been blessed with the gift of perfect pitch so I have a natural affinity for sounds and... music. I've been playing with pianos since I was a toddler and I was able to figure out melodies and basslines and harmonies often after hearing a song once. Click on the photo below to see a video.
Now, at nine, I'm a serious music student. All my videos are in the video section of the site. I hope you'll watch them and enjoy them as much as I enjoy singing and playing. They are very short informal clips, arranged in chronological order, starting from when I was about 3 right up to the present.
My Back Pages: Shortly after my second birthday I was diagnosed with autism. Apparently I had never spoken, never made eye contact with anyone, played only by myself, never pointed at anything, cried when I wanted something. I started ABA therapy soon after. It became obvious to those around me that although I didn't speak, I knew how to read. I'd leave words made of refrigerator magnets all over the floor. I was on the computer using the internet every spare moment I had. At three, I struggled with speaking but I could sing... and I did constantly. Again, it became apparent that I had perfect pitch and a photographic memory. I was fortunate to be admitted to the best school for autism in the entire world. I still struggle every day with all the deficits and difficulties that autism brings. It's a full time job. I love making music and I hope that my music makes you feel as happy as music makes me. People make a mistake who think that my art has come easily to me. Nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not studied over and over - Mozart |
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