there’s a kind of syntactical ambient music that plays in my “head” all day long at different frequencies, and what I write generally kind of rides in on that…
June 4, 2007 by J
there’s a kind of syntactical ambient music that plays in my “head” all day long at different frequencies, and what I write generally kind of rides in on that…
I’m a writer and I found what you said here interesting. Can you elaborate a bit on it?
It’s a little hard to explain. But I’ll give it a try. There’s usually, more or less, a kind of “tone” to my day, or parts of my day. I suppose you could call it a “mood” but I’m not sure that’s exactly it. It accompanies the events of the day and my myriad mental and emotional responses to those events. There are both patterned, habitual responses, and what I’d call more “free” and “aware” responses.
In terms of writing poetry, and “listening” in order to write, altogether tone and response creates sort of an ambient environment. I listen to it, and words emerge, or maybe just merge, ride in on that tone — like lyrics, I suppose, to the music of the day. Ideally, the words come out of awareness, rather than patterned, habitual responses.
Hope that’s not too confusing…