Creativity in the Air : Grasp and fashion ideas from your feelings and mood

Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Grasp and fashion ideas from your feelings and mood

I improvise at the piano.

I have noticed that my musical ideas arise from feelings; the melodies, rhythms and harmonies I explore and develop whilst improvising are formed from the feel and pulse of my mood.

Reflective and relaxed: the notes touch and caress; busy and anxious: they scatter and clash; sad: they float and cry; happy: they bounce and tease.

My mood is transformed into a flowing river of improvisation, and my hands dip into it to play with the shapes and patterns floating or swimming or swirling there.

Shimmering and shifting music emerges and grows from mood.

What is your mood? How can you express it? What can you grasp from within it?

How can you fashion what you hold into something new and uniquely yours?

2 comments:

Peter Cook23 January 2019 at 09:15
Music is the language of the emotions (Kant ... and Madonna ... I think)
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About Charles M Lines

Charles M Lines trained as a musician and studied composition at the Colchester School of Music during the early 1980s. He joined the UK Civil Service in 1984 where he worked for various government departments, eventually specialising in management consultancy, training and development. In 1996 he became a Senior Lecturer at the UK Civil Service College.

At the age of 41 he left the Civil Service to work as an independent management consultant and trainer. He has since been in demand both at home and abroad, providing management consultancy and training events to a very wide range of clients.

He speaks and writes regularly about creative problem solving and how music's creative principles and practices can help us all be more creative in our approach to life and work.