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Creativity in the air: how music can help us all be more creative Music is creativity in the air. It surrounds us for much of our lives, and we are even aware of it before we are born. At some very deep level within us we need the stimulation of its crashing energy and vitality and the calming reassurance of its dreamy slowness - its velvety, flowing emotion. Music is almost telepathy. It grants us the gift of hearing and experiencing thoughts and emotions not easily expressed by words, either written or spoken. It is perhaps the best tool we have for gaining access to the inner workings of someone else’s mind. Music mirrors our lives. It moves from one emotion to another; it has a beginning and an end; it moves quickly, then slowly; flows up and then down; has climaxes and anti – climaxes; it works itself out into various lines, pathways and harmonies as it goes along. Like humanity, the lives of which it mirrors, it strives to make sense of its existence and develop to their full extent its various potentials, thoughts, ideas and emotions. Also, just as we sometimes find in our own lives, it struggles to solve the problems set deep within itself. Music helps us think. It creates stimulating worlds of sound that encourage us think creatively and deeply. Practising a musical instrument physically enhances the connections between the right and left hemispheres of the brain, so helping us to tap into our full thinking potential, to use our intuitive and logical faculties synergistically. Music merits deep study. As music surrounds us so intimately, like a second aural skin, we need to take the time to notice the sensations it gives us and the insights and new perspectives it puts before us. This will help us develop what almost amounts to a sixth 'musical' sense that adds new layers of meaning to our everyday interactions with the world. The following pages (that will be added to from time to time), will explore the nature of music and how it can help us become more creative in our lives and in how we deal with the situations and problems we face. They will describe the creative approaches and techniques inherent within music and show how they can be applied within other, non- musical spheres of endeavour.
Create a balance between consonance and dissonance Re-assessing old ideas within new contexts Turn your problem into a song
Apply the principles of musical structure to your problems Apply the art of fugueDistil an issue down to its essence Create cathedrals of
innovation Take the time to play things out Introduce the new by way of the familiar Aim to achieve unity not uniformity Give yourself time to struggle alone Just start physically doing something To be creative create limitations Explore and exploit your full potential Never discount the importance of slight changes Listen to the unique music of people's words Bridge the gap between opposites Embrace widely - enclose selectively Rather than marching into battle try serenading your enemies Create new rules for new and complex worlds Think first and act a little later When you don't see the point ask what the point might be Create a virtuous feedback loop Think carefully and creatively about the order in which you present your ideas
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