We all have our own way of working and understanding, maybe this helps you, maybe not. I can only share my thoughts with you and hope for the best. Of course, I will change my mind, Insights happen all the time, that’s what being an Artist is. A Work of Art is always in motion.… Continue reading You can’t start a garden with a flower
Author: Anneloes Wolters
Composer
The Coincidence of Opposites
The coincidence of opposites is the idea of having both the Yin and the Yang in one creation. It is an interesting struggle, because not the one nor the other is true: it’s always both at the same time. Creation through the coincidence of opposites, writing the one AND the other, is very different from… Continue reading The Coincidence of Opposites
Falling into a new Chapter
When a new era knocks on the door: I fall into a new Chapter. When new Music presents itself: I fall into it backwards. Then I have to trust the Silence: have Faith in being nothing and Listen. My ego frustrates my falling to be completely Free, when it struggles to force Music to… Continue reading Falling into a new Chapter
A composition is a relation
I was playing Ravel and the composition made me so sad. I just can’t be in it, the illogical constructions, the despaire. Then I found a quote in a book by I. Mcgillchrist. Ravel had a brain disease and his left side of the brain deteriorated in such a way, that he could still hear… Continue reading A composition is a relation
Musical Philosophical Thinking
If Music is the language to use when words fail, Music must be the language used to wonder about the deepest philosophical questions. So, if I want to discuss my deepest philosophical questions, it would be an exchange of music. Wouldn’t it? This summer, I started studying ‘The matter with things’ by I. Mcgilchrist and… Continue reading Musical Philosophical Thinking
Iain Mcgilchrist, music and the coincidence of opposites
I asked philosopher Iain McGilchrist online at the Q&A of 09-12-2023 the following question: How does the coincidence of opposites help create music? This is a transcription of his answer: It’s a terribly good question. I put it in partly because I thought this is a really testing question. And I think partly, I don’t… Continue reading Iain Mcgilchrist, music and the coincidence of opposites
Felting Soundcolors
For a new composition for Torch, I am experimenting with a new way to inspire my orchestration by felting. I wanted to know whether I would orchestrate differently, when I am inspired by textiles, specifically felting by hand. I wanted to know whether the felting, the rubbing, the smell of the soap, the time not… Continue reading Felting Soundcolors
Visual Spacial Creativity
In my previous blog about Creativity I came to the conclusion that ‘me in my studio’, my mini “Institute for Curiosity” should: change all the time: size, dimensions, values, colors, sounds… limit until the absurd, then invite chaos. create problems. provide problem-inventors. make things more complicated. help asking Why? from the beginning. offer a search for unthinkable… Continue reading Visual Spacial Creativity
What is Creativity?
Introduction Brian Kai Chin is executive director of the Institute for Creativity. He offered me the opportunity to write music for the Common Tone Ensemble and planted a Torch on my Map of Miracles. I thought that this Torch, would be ‘simply’ a piece of music. But Brian’s Torch turned out to be a journey… Continue reading What is Creativity?
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