"You have to be able to float through your environment with your antennae up, like a butterfly, and just let things ping your antennae." - Sterling Lanier
Creativity can be instigated by auditory stimuli: a song or musical piece; the soft sudden sound of a leaf landing on the forest floor; thunder or staccato of rain; a bird song peeling back the edges of night so daw can be revealed; a mother’s voice; laughter of playing children; a woman’s sob. Some sounds are so beautiful they hurt, they fill us with joy, they transcend language. Auditory stimuli enriches us, sharpens our awareness of the world around us, rouses us from lethargy. A sound can send us to our art desk, in utter thrall, to create something that is sparked in us.
Creativity can be spoken to in many mediums. Artists are sent to their creative stations to try to express the feeling a sound can give them. Some have learned to use apps that are sound bytes (waves, storms, rain, birds singing, etc.) My mother taught us early, the beautiful stories to music). She would put classical 75 records on ad ask us to tell her the story the music tells us. I believe she conditioned me early to be sensitive to music, to hear the story of “Walk Through Vienna Woods”.
Repetitive sounds instigate creativity. Nature has organic repetitive sounds that we can expose ourselves to in order to spark creativity. The world, our home, our room, is swirling with sounds we have learned not to pay attention to because the world is so chaotic and loud.
What sounds drive your creativity? Mine is definitely music. It drives my mind, body, heart and soul.
©Carol Desjarlais 5.21.23
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