I am always listening to music while I create, sometimes one song sticks with me more that the others at a given time. This summer, as I was finishing my Quoth the Raven series and had just moved to Baltimore, I had an anthem of sorts, a Saul Williams song, DNA...
Now I'm still 'feeling' Saul Williams, but I am also reaching back into a history a bit for this one. What I am most 'feeling' right now is Sea Lion by Sage Francis (featuring Saul Williams)...
When I was starting my undergrad thesis work about DV this was one of my many musical influences. I especially love the idea of "a healthy distrust" and the words "the force of my love was strong". That simple phrase still whoops my butt in creating a well of ideas for my artmaking. It's really such a full and loaded phrase in so many ways. Thanks guys. Where would I be without music?!?
3 comments:
Shana,
You are so right...music is the great liberator!
So happy that you are back in Bmore safe and sound!
Have a great week,
Brian
thanks for the well wishes brian, hope you 'weathered' the extreme weather too.
music is life. i wonder if anyone can live without music? even deaf people can hear the beat, the bass...even the most archaic of tribes had music and dance and instrument...i dont think humans can live without the beat.
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