SOS Episode #18: Plug In and Get Grounded: Balancing Your Musical Current
Have you ever experienced tension between your physical experience and your mental state? How about your ideas and your reality?
If you stop to think about it, music can be understood as an interplay between opposing, yet complimentary energies: the electrical charge that comes from the ether and the grounding support that comes from the material world. If you have ever experienced the challenges that come from trying to manage these poles of the human experience, join this SOS podcast as JP explores ways to balance the artistic with the practical, the intangible with the material, and the emotional with the physical in the arts of songwriting and performance.
Tags: alchemy, balance, Current, electricity, energies, mental, musical expression, physical, spiritual
April 26th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
It’s true that we are electric, that is the nervous system is an endless firing of electrical impulses, that the pattern of electricity indeed is the physical manifestation of thought, and that electricity prompts our flesh to action.
Whitman wrote of this well before the science could corroborate poetry: I Sing The Body Electric. (http://www.bartelby.org/142/19.html)
It goes further. If you apply the transitive property to Whitman’s line, “And if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?” then you understand that electricity is the manifestation of soul.
Surely Jimi Hendrix found simply that through electricity he could more directly express his soul.
April 27th, 2008 at 9:52 am
I agree. The experience of electricity certainly preceded the “discovery.” Artists and mystics often express what scientists later discover–sort of like two hemispheres of a global brain catching up with each other.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Keep the vibrations coming!