So... I had a bizarre-o dream last night. But it summed up nicely some of my thoughts on things like missed opportunities, summing up a couple of decades of my life. My subconscious had a nice summary of my life issues.It kind of reinforced a couple of things that seem to be following one another like a train, in my thinking lately.1. 2002, an Ideas show on CBC, discusses how the mind and music are connected, eg. someone took brain waves and somehow made MIDI data with them, and the "music" sounded somewhat like gentle improvisation. It was musical, not random bleeping. Apparently one person's brain wave "music" had the effect of calming the individual down. So I wonder if one musician's brain waves are sympathetically induced in the brains of the listener. Some people will like that, and understand the music; some will not like the music at all, because hey, everyone's different. If your brain has been altered by drugs, maybe only people with similarly altered minds will get what you're saying in the music.2. when you're designing an apartment, or whatever, and choosing colours, if you choose things you like, eventually it will all hang together in some sort of unity, because you will tend to pick the same colours and themes after awhile.3. I worked in a primarily male-populated workplace for awhile. I then, that christmas, went shopping for my dad for clothes. In the store, I could peg which clothes racks would be the type of clothes that each of my male co-workers would have chosen from: whether loud prints, hipster T shirts, etc, but more subtle than that even. They were picking clothes that reflected their personalities, so much so that when I saw the clothes on the rack, I immediately thought of the person who might wear them.4. I tried to read Ulysses. What was the deal with the subconscious writing? Don't know, never studied it in school.5. Geoff said my music was cool, but previously my mom had said it was "headache music". So it's all about finding an audience, not altering your message, necessarily.6. Sincerity, in art, or in life, goes a long way. If something is pre-packaged, overly thought out, or reworked to death, it loses something. I particularly find this when I'm watching TV - I don't find very much in the way of TV that doesn't seem fabricated and focus-grouped to death... oh wait, that's Edge 102. No, for me, TV is just too predictable, when they beat an idea to death over and over (eg. the dumb husband and smart wife, eg. Tim the Tool Man, Everyone Loves Raymond, King of Queens) or everything's set in New York. It's the same core of people making all these TV shows, and for me, it shows.So... if you let your mind go freely and do stuff, it will be expressive, and SOMEONE out there will "get" what you're saying. Now I don't mean simply doing art without censoring yourself, I mean more like Ulysses, I want to try music that doesn't follow convention with using chords and so forth. Because the music that I just spewed out the other day, I wasn't trying to have chords, or melody, yet when I listened back to it, hi, it had chords and melody. Later it just had form, but no melody... but hey, Ulysses had form, but no plot. It's amorphous, but I think that if many people that I know wrote something in the same stream-of-consciousness style, I could likely match the writing to the author with not a lot of trouble... I wonder?
Post je objavljen 05.08.2009. u 06:43 sati.