It seems to me the more I talk, even briefly, with musicians that it isn't that I am not meeting musicians, it's that I'm not meeting musicians who have the same interests in the music that I have. This has been the case for a very long – too long – time. It isn't that I don't respect the music that they're making, because I do, and I enjoy some of it fully; but there is a seeking core inside the construction that has to be part of the creative construction conversation if the musicians are going to be on the same page – and some of that conversation could (and does in some cases) come from playing together. Still, there is a deeper level of communion with God (the Creator) which cannot be assumed. The need to talk about why you would use this structure or that structure, or if the choices are musical or random, is an important part of opening the same “story” inside the construction of the music. The construction gets reflected back in the form of response; and if you come from a different perspective about the nature of the response, then you are probably going to start diverging off into varying interpretations of what is happening.
I've heard many musicians talk about their path forward to the place where they are when I meet them. I'm not lacking for people who are sure that they know what they are doing. I'm also not lacking for people who don't care about what is inside the music; generally they are “doing what is right in their own eyes”. What I have lacked is the connection to individuals who want to offer input and insight to open the doors and open the mind to the experience of the music.
It is the experiencing of the music that is the hardest subject to approach. We generally do not talk about how the music is reflected back to us as musicians – from the light into the creative process. Learning how to be a part of the interaction of the light is the key ingredient in keeping the music alive and the musician in the moment of the spirit of youthfulness which lights the creative fires. As we become more accomplished as musicians, we tend to get stuck on the same professional chains and routine like processes that other professionals in a craft do, but we are in a creative field, and there is no real excuse for not opening up our youthful spirit as long as we have energy to do so. Part of that is accomplished by recognizing that when we are stuck, we are being put into a position where we need to listen and consider the opportunity for input. This is one of the most wonderful aspects of music as the framework for “cycles” – and of course sound is measured in cyclical sound waves [of energy].
When we come together as musicians, we have the opportunity to create a framework, a foundation point in the construction of the living relationship with the music as a vehicle of God's voice and love in our world. What we poor out of our souls is what we love. We hope people will connect. When we gather with other musicians, in our best incarnations, we try to hear each other as we play, making the experience interactive – whether by a set design for the listener audience or as a free form design for the band, with the audience allowed to jump in to hear what we are talking about [with God].
Getting to the point where we begin to talk about the production of music as an extension of the conversation of the living God just might be more than most of the people I've met really want to talk about; it is something I wonder about as I “say nothing at all” while I listen to their stories ….
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