Colourful, inventive and packed with personality, ‘Positive Energy!’ is an impressively expansive offering that treats children as listeners worth challenging as well as entertaining. And more importantly, it makes that challenge feel like fun.
We Found New Music
Positive Energy! (The Music of Doctor Noize) is a celebration of everything music can be: a place to learn, laugh, question, listen, create and connect. Doctor Noize has built an extraordinary musical world around those ideas, and this collection offers an ideal opportunity to step inside it.
Music News Today
He’s still committed to inspiring young hearts. This album is his love letter to childhood, and his bold new chapter is just beginning.
Diego Pinheiro
It’s like immersing oneself in a dreamlike environment. With profoundly intoxicating and exhilarating sensory stimuli thanks to the delicate and melodious harp playing, the composition manages to make the listener feel literally floating through the atmosphere.
Cory Cullinan
A lot of what I do is trying to live up to the promise of my father, my brother, and my best musical friend in my teens Mark Van Horn, who also died young of a brain tumor like my brother. I don’t know why I’m around and they’re not. But I do know that I’m gonna make it count, and I’m gonna do it partly in their honor. They’d be doing it with me. I’m doing it without them. I’ve always felt slightly alone without them. But I’m doing it. And I’ve created an amazing — amazing — family of my own with a brilliant wife and two brilliant daughters.
Cory Cullinan
It’s time because I’ve released a lot of Doctor Noize material I’m deeply proud of, and I am at an inflection point in my career where I’ve decided I’m going to tilt the balance of what I do more toward adults as Cory Cullinan than kids as Doctor Noize. I’ll still be playing shows and releasing (less) music as Doctor Noize. But I’ll be doing even more releasing music as Cory Cullinan for adults, teaching Recording Arts at Stanford in the summers, serving as Chair of the Board or the recording program at Pikes Peak State College, writing a book, releasing a mystery musical pretty soon, and taking more time to learn and listen again.
Janette Cullinan
Are you looking for an in-person event that sparks creativity and insight about how your team works? Cory and I are bringing together our energy and expertise to facilitate a half day workshop for teams of all shapes and sizes. My expertise in leadership skills assessments and teamwork will provide the foundation for understanding and leveraging the full portfolio of your team’s strengths, while Cory guides and supports your group through the process of writing a song. We’ll customize the level of deep tissue team optimization to your need. You decide whether the song serves an organizational purpose or simply challenges the team to work together and think differently.
Janette Cullinan
I think it’s important to remember that we are all end users for one another. As we listen to each others’ aspirations, we’ll focus less on the limitations and be inspired to remove barriers to unlock opportunity.
UnitedHealth Group
Janette Cullinan, senior director of learning experiences on UnitedHealth Group’s Talent Development team, shares how she uses her own experience of living with a disability to remain laser-focused on providing the best possible experience for the end user.
Doris Huang
One day in class he decided to tell us a story. When he was a sophomore at the local high school, his older brother was suddenly diagnosed with terminal cancer. Instead of fighting his fate or acting selfishly and demanding attention in the last few months of his life, Mr. C’s brother bravely accepted reality and continued to live his life just as fully as he had before. When his brother passed away, Mr. C vowed to live his own life to the fullest as a sort of memorial to his brother’s constancy and courage.In the midst of the mourning, Mr. C’s father, who had at one time served as mayor of his hometown, began to blame himself for his son’s disease and subsequent decease. The depression that ensued eventually drove him to suicide. He drove his car out one day and shot himself.Needless to say we students were all stunned to hear the story of Mr. C’s family. How was it that this man, who had suffered such unimaginable trauma as a teenager and who had lost half his immediate family within a year or two, was now one of the most visible and vibrant teachers on campus, one who single-handedly fashioned a revitalized music department including music history classes, a choir group, and an electronic music group that created and recorded its own CD? How was it that this man had a literally boundless store of energy and good humor? How was it that this man not only survived, but prevailed?