My creativity advent calendar 2024: Day 5.
Yesterday I quoted from Rick Rubin’s book “The Creative Act — A Way of Being”. The book has many contradictions but the thing I like most about it is the assertion that “We are all creative” and that creativity is about our relationship to the world.
I’m a great believer in serendipity so it’s no surprise that after exploring Dame Evelyn Glennie’s declaration that “The overload of visual stimulus is so loud that it is thwarting our ability to listen”, I came across Dark Sounds.
Dark Sounds (a production of We Are Sound) creates extraordinary, live, sound experiences in total darkness — for both audience and performers.
So while Dame Evelyn creates her music from a world of deafness, Dark Sounds urges us to listen without sight. What does this do to us as consumers of these different art forms?
If, as Rick Ruben says, creativity is about our relationship to the world, are we being creative by listening and turning those sounds into meaning?
“To ask what sort of art one should practice is to ask what sort of being one is. It follows that before we rush to answer the first part, we should consider the second. What sort of beings are we? Contingent; capable; conscious. What sort of art should we make? Communion.” (From Joseph Braun’s description of a conversation with Seth Braverman)
