Music – For me, there has always been music. Music as a cultural badge, I am because I am a fan. Music to dance to. Music saying what could otherwise not be expressed. Music as the bearer of words. Music to be played, made, collected, criticised, hated and loved.
Soul – Thought, emotion, perception, pain, imagination … our life. Everything which lies inside and beyond this material body, this “maya/flesh”, everything worth tending and caring for.
Spirit – The realm of the eternal, now obscured by cloud, but due for revelation.
Journey – the will to live, to grow. Curiosity, forgiveness, engagement, courage, dialectic. Compose, deconstruct, improvise, craft, remix, mashup.
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liquidlight said
mmm, i like! a promising statement of intent, ingredients & ingenuity. any first post that ends with the word “mashup” warrants further visits. here’s to journeying beyond the maya/flesh. adios, Kart Walshtank aka Stockhausen’s anti-cousin.
tia said
See you on the road!
twinstar said
ok like so when are you going to elaborate? basically i’m intruiged. deconstruct and mashup – yes. one of the principle thingys of our collective is that creative music emerges from the braking apart. kinda like the sacrifice – yknow an offering? i once did this with a stravinsky remix; its amazing to see what ideas can yield. the simplest sound contains a whole lotta meaning, and its the mashing up that brings it out.
nic paton said
Thanks twinstar. I do have to get this blog rolling, I know. But as you have seen I’m hectically trying to get the project completed. Those Kaoss Pad swells on “Pull of the Dark Star” really work – its the human touch in the digital melee that counts. You guys think v differently to songwriters. We are so word obsessive and so into guitars and mandolins (and the new zouk – wait until you sample that!). Sorry reader – this is an Irish bouzouki being built for me by Dave Shapiro in Porterville – eagerly awaited.
So, all in good time, not everything happens at over 130 bpm, ok?