Recently I've spent quite a lot of time on trains, and I always seem to find these a great place to listen to music. Obviously there is little more to do on a train, but still, there are times on a train where I have had wonderful experiences of listening to music. I tend to travel on the Transpennine Express mostly, and on those trains in between the First Class section and the driver there is a small area, which I dub 'The Hole'. It's essentially a larger cabin where the toilet is and there are fold down seats for passengers. Usually it's very quiet which can be very handy if I want to sing idea's to myself without looking like a raving lunatic.
Today's journey I spent listening to the album 'Iepo Oneipo' by John Tavener. Which is a collection of his works recorded by The Chamber Choir of Southern Iceland. In particular the piece 'The Lamb' has always stood out for me as one of my favourites. The way in which the first section takes two very simple lines of melody but intertwines between beautiful harmonies and harsh dissonances, and then moves into an amazingly simple second section where the four parts separate in such a delicate fashion that the transition is completely seamless.
It's moments like that when I catch my breath and think to myself "That's what I want to create when people listen to my work", a feeling of ethereality that feels like it came from somewhere else.
I'm certainly feeling inspired.
LW
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