Tag: creativity

Key to the BML Challenge

    As discussed, the chart of the serial killer was chart #7, Ted Bundy. The first chart was the genius mathematician Alan Turing. The rest are as follows, and we will discuss them all in the next post: Chart # 2:  Goethe, writer, philosopher and statesman, considered by many to be the great man […]

T S Eliot On Inspiration

When I read the following thoughts on creativity from the pen of the poet TS Eliot, I asked myself what’s happening in his 12th house? “I know, for instance, that some forms of ill-health, debility or anaemia, may (if other circumstances are favourable) produce an efflux of poetry in a way approaching the condition of automatic writing — though, in contrast to the claims sometimes made for the latter, the material has obviously been incubating within the poet, and cannot be suspected of being a present form a friendly or impertinent demon. What one writes in this way may succeed in standing the […]

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Brian Eno’s Creative Drive: Randomness and Order

  Since his first work as a feather-clad glam-rocker in the art-school band Roxy Music in the early 1970s to his latest incarnation as producer of extraordinary “generative” music apps, Eno has been a dynamo of ideas, energy and experiment. He is incredibly prolific. If you look at his discography, it seems as if he must have been working continuously since 1970, as producer, composer and performer (although seldom outside the studio). A pioneer of electronic music, he proved that you didn’t have to be a “musician” to make music. Years ago, Eno tried to get the job title “non-musician” put […]

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Expressing Your Aesthetic

“Listen with your eyes and sing everything you see… Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue, you can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too.”
–Arthur Hamilton, “I Can Sing a Rainbow”