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Choice, love, passion

25/2/2012

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"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion."
- Nadia Boulanger 

Nadia Boulanger  was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many of the greatest 20th century composers. This is an inspiring quote. It crystallizes the heartbeat of life, faith, music and all that we do on this earth as humans.

Sometimes as an artist you can lose your way a bit and it takes someone else or something outside of your usual inspiration sources to ignite a spark again.This has happened so many times over in my life. It might be another piece of music, an interaction with someone, an artwork or something visual or on many occasions it's come from an idea out of a book I have read. The well is deep and somewhere out there in the ether is a great reservoir of creativity that we can tap into. It's rarely at will for me though I know some creatives who have incredible discipline. It's a trigger, a connection, something that ignites a spark. Something that awakens the world of choice, love or passion and sometimes glimpses or experiences of suffering where those things are lacking in my own life or in someone whose life I am privileged to observe or be a part of. 

There is a saying in Buddhism which states "When the student is ready to learn, the teacher will appear". 

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Skypunch... introducing the Cloud Quartet

18/2/2012

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OK, so I love clouds ... the picture above is reportedly a rare meteorological phenomenon. It's known as skypunch. Ice crystals form above the high altitude cirro-cumulo -stratus clouds, then fall downward punching a hole in the cloud cover. check out the link for more info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallstreak_hole

Very soon I will be unveiling my new project. The Cloud Quartet is different than anything I have ever attempted before. Following "...this is" in 2007, I felt I had exhausted my current musical methodology and though I have worked on a number of collaborations between then and now, I had some ideas of my own in development but needed something outside of my usual scope of musicians to develop them and bring them to fruition. The first demos for the project have become known as the Mr Cloud demos but the addition of three musicians of vastly different musical disciplines and interests has brought this project into a new space. The Cloud Quartet was birthed. I will be announcing the band members in due course and I imagine the album will be out by the end of the year.

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