Treading Thoughts
Posted by Erik | Filed under visual, word
Rather than the music, I am interested in the silence found between notes. As important as the words, I am drawn to the sounds a person makes when in the process of thinking what to say next. I refer to this phenomenon as treading thoughts. When a creative person is in the middle of an improvisation, he reaches a point near the end of an idea or phrase where he is not quite sure what comes next. The resulting outcome cannot be completely planned while at the same time it is not completely new. It is a synthesis of the rehearsed and the randomness coming out of the moment—sometimes a mistake but more often a wonderful synergy. A professor I studied under used to refer to this as a “happy accident,” displaying his contempt for anything he could not control or plan. “Happiness” is underrated.
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