MUSIC AS A CATALYST FOR IMAGINATION
Having touched on the darker side of the emotional spectrum, as it relates to music, and how it potentially inspires us, I wanted to venture down a different path, musically. To explore a lighter, more gentle, even childlike aspect of the subject matter. I get inspired by music a lot. It can help create worlds in my mind, to assist me in coalescing story lines, or potential ideas into a useful script. Sometimes I just escape, with no thought of why, or where it is going. Does it matter? Like a good book, it is taking me somewhere, and for the time being at least, I am content to go there.
I believe in the power of imagination. To me it is a bridge between worlds. A road that can lead from where we are to where we wish to be. As children we spend inordinate amounts of time dwelling in our own worlds. Worlds born from the imagination. The 'real world' disabuses us of that art and skill.
I remember thinking, once way back in my youth, that 'children are god's that we adults train into being human'. A poetic way of describing what I was witnessing in this world of ours, and from my own life. But children are masters of imagination. A subject that is too taboo for adults. Simply child's play. But why? What will happen if we venture there, and dwell in it's abundant territories?
Will we come face to face with a hidden power that resides within us? Or is that simply the stuff of fairy tales? Who knows, but I am an explorer. A curious wanderer. I grew up in a religion that told me that God is big and I am small. But the same religion's holy book also tells us (if you know where to look, and interpret for yourself) that we are all gods. So I think no one really knows and I will find out for myself. Again these are just questions. Derived from looking into the void and feeling an immense sense of curiosity. Curiosity about stories, fables, myths and legends. And imagination, which seems to dwell at the heart of all of these. And which seems to dwell at the heart of who we are.
JIMI HENDRIX'S LITTLE WING
Musically Jimi Hendrix's song Little Wing moves me in a positive and powerful way. Lyrically imaginative, child like, dreamy, and wistful. Like a fairy-tale whittled down to approximately 3 minutes. Finished with a guitar solo that doesn't invade the sonic fields; it instead paints a picture of escape and fantasy, and childlike freedom. It helps me lose my mind into a field of imagination where I usually never return from empty handed.
Little Wing
Well, she's walking through the clouds,
With a circus mind that's running wild,
Butterflies and Zebras,
And Moonbeams and fairy tales.
That's all she ever thinks about.
Riding with the wind.
When I'm sad, she comes to me,
With a thousand smiles she gives to me free.
It's alright, she says it's alright,
Take anything you want from me,
Anything.
Fly on little wing.
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Notes From an Amateur Writer #1 - The Search For Inspiration
Notes From an Amateur Writer #2 - A Call to Action: Interacting With the World Outside of Me
Notes From an Amateur Writer #3 - Facing the Challenge
Notes From an Amateur Writer #4 - The Soundtrack to Grief and Loss