I hope you enjoy this video looking into the magic of songwriting and the creative process in general.
The song featured here is available now
https://josepharthur.bandcamp.com/track/there-but-for-the-grace-of-god-go-i
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A thread about songwriting.
I had an inkling.
Inkling is defined as
a slight knowledge or suspicion; a hint.
I had an inkling that I should write about songwriting
As it’s something I’ve invested much of my life doing
I suppose it would be logical
But even as I say that I’ve spent much of my time writing songs
I don’t know that that’s even true
It’s more that I’ve spent much of my time being open to the songs floating by
Which brings us back to an inkling
My experience of songwriting or any creative act really
(But even more so with songwriting)
Is to follow the inklings.
Follow the hints
(Or the inspirations)
The thoughts that float by which seem insignificant
But then float by again
(Like whispers from a different realm)
Ideas and where they come from
Is as mysterious as the energy we have to pursue them
Or our willingness to be open to them
Songwriting therefore is a practice
Like any meditation
And the voices we pull from the ether
Tend to tell us things about this place
We couldn’t have otherwise known
They breath extra life in the life we are already living
And very often they predict the future
Like some kind melodic oracles that you capture
In the audio notes of your phone
And May never revisit again
or else we may end up building an orchestra around them.
The magic of songwriting
Is not only that it hinges on inklings
Or tiny inspirations
But also
It’s the only thing that combines words and melody
It’s the combination of words and melody
And I find that interesting…
To define it as such
A songs official definition is
a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice.
So a song is also an invitation
To find our voice
The depth of our true voice maybe
In the
combination of words and melody
It’s A dancing prayer if you will
A demonic seance
A plea for sex
A mischievous rant
A kaleidoscopic journey
It’s the combination of words and melody that gives it all its power
The ability to bend words
To shift their meaning
Or accentuate their power
If you think about it
Words were always going to demand melody
They
Weren’t going to live their whole lives
Satisfied with just being spoken
For words themselves are so powerful
That they were going to need to find vehicles for their expression
Melodies
Another mysterious and powerful force
And melody is even difficult to discuss
Because A melody just comes to you
Strumming chords and humming
Melodies fall from discussions in the sky
Between spirits that we are lucky enough to tap into from time to time
It’s nothing you can really write
From an analytical state of mind
It’s not a mental construct as much as a spiritual one
If one has difficulty believing in the spiritual realm or the realm of principalities
He need only consider melody
And try to explain its origins
Indeed for me songwriting is a spiritual practice
And can’t really be defined any other way.
Songwriting underlines the fact that there are worlds beyond this one
And that songwriting is in-fact a way to commune with such worlds
A way to pass notes back and forth with those principalities
To communicate with those worlds and share the evidence of those communications with others
But songwriting isn’t just magical healing and spiritual
It’s also dumb
Soulless and commercial
It has all the sides of life
It becomes what we bring to it
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