I've spent time in the studio and on stage with some of my favorite musicians. I've seen them create and observed them at practice and play. I've studied their techniques, learned their philosophies, and looked to them for mentorship. Perhaps none has influenced me as profoundly as DiViNCi. His musicality is singular and his creativity inspiring, but the greatest lessons I've learned from him lie outside the ostensible bounds of our craft. He's helped me connect my music to my life, my practice to my person, and my most mundane habits to my most outlandish creativity. I'm a better musician and human for knowing him. I'd been searching for my guru, but I stumbled on my sensei instead. I'm grateful.”

- Max Drummy

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“It’s hard to quantify how valuable my sessions with DiViNCi were. In just a few conversations, he led me to a place where he was able to unlock parts of my potential that I could not unlock myself. He broke the glass walls and ceilings I had been running into for years, somehow undoing years of damage in minutes.  He was masterful with his questions, incisive and deliberate, and got to the heart of the matter of what was holding me back with incredible precision. There were countless times in our talks where I was left so impacted that all I could find was one “wow....” after another.. and truly, when we addressed these areas, it was like a dam being broken and I’ve had an outpouring of creativity flow from me since then. No great creator reached their fullest potential without the help of a coach or mentor who brought wisdom and truth at the right time and I feel lucky to have had DiViNCi as mine.”

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“I first met DiViNCi while conducting my doctoral research on gesture, digital media, and different artistic practices. I came upon an article in the New York Times describing an emerging pantheon of performers using MPCs and other controllers in live performance, of which DiViNCi was described as the one of the most florid. Struck by the physical intelligence and creative ferocity in his performance videos, I reached out to him to request an interview. He met me with expansive generosity, inviting me to observe and interview him over several days at his home studio in Orlando. Throughout the time I spent with him, DiViNCi shared his creative philosophy with me in words and in practice. Though not classically trained in music, he arrives as a musician through profound experiences of flow. Informed by his martial arts experience, DiViNCi sustains an intense physical presence in composition and performance. This is manifest in his live performances, but it is also clear in his playful approach to technical experimentation. His embodied creativity also animates his approach as a teacher. While I came to him as a researcher, full of questions, DiViNCi insisted that I really had to practice what he preached in order to grasp what he was talking about. With his guidance, and the license he gave me to play on his controller, I made my first song. Within hours, what was once purely in the realm of the ideas for me became a joyful reality.”

- Vanessa Chang

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