Your vision will become clear when you look into your heart.
– Jung
This is more or less how I feel, when I listen to Ear Buds. When singing, or simply listening to, Nuhro.
There is music which I write, the process of creating which is not (on the surface) governed by how I want to compose it. But there is a sound in my inner ear, which I know to be a good sound, and a sound apt for expansion into a full piece. And my “work”? To be obedient to the sound.
It should be added (that is, it appears to me to be true) that the reason that I am able, today, to ‘surrender’ my musical mind to obedience to a sound, and that the result can be a musical composition with which my ear, my mind, and my heart are altogether satisfied – the reason is, I have years of experience writing, and many of the pieces I have written over the years have been governed (well governed, no tyranny here) by the mind. The process – not one process, but a repertory of processes, approaches – is internalized.
I can be obedient to the sound, because I know I can trust my ingrained musical habits. Discipline; the fruits of discipline.
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