*Screen shot of instrumental layers : Song For Judy
A few weeks ago I had a beautiful email from a member thanking me for the music I make. I was so touched that this month’s composer’s choice is composed and dedicated to Judy.
In my email I replied:
“… when I was 12 …I would play sustained, slow, ambient, Erik Satie/ dreamy Debussy-esque improvs to put my dad to sleep. He saw this as a very good investment in my music lessons! So, it goes way back, and I think this process was also dropping my own brainwave-states as well- and then Id record and play and speak on a cassette player, my own meditations.”
My whole aim is to slow down the heart rate and drop your brainwave state as well as to take you on a journey. As a process, I imagine that I’m flying over an ever-changing landscape. These compositions are multi layered with interweaving layered sounds (polyphony- thankyou J.S.Bach) and I tend to get the whole structure down in the first sitting. Because I’ve been meditating for years, I can go into deeper brain states and still be composing/awake and I think the elevated ‘flying place’ place I imagine, thankfully, somehow stops me falling off my chair in a trance state.
The other thing I’m doing is that over the past 4 years I have made a lot of music for OML. I am currently revisiting earlier compositions and finding elements with ‘fresh ears’ and extrapolating, building new themes from earlier works. As an artist, this re-working process is essential…and from this comes new ideas.
Thank you, Judy, for your inspiring words.
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Steve
Stephen Fearnley is an award-winning filmmaker, artist and composer. He composes transformational soundscapes for the journeys of One Mind Live – a unique worldwide online group meditation community. To sample One Mind Live, go HERE