This is a new blog, related to my other - Revolutions - which I have been contributing to for a few years now. While Revolutions deals with my own career within the changing music industry, this one will be much more introspective.
Silence was my first album, released in 2005 on my label Gaymonkey. It was inspired by the electronic pop music that had been a huge part of my youth, and the electronic music that was shaping my time in the UK. The title of the album alludes to the Depeche Mode song "Enjoy the Silence" - which is one of the greatest ever written. It also relates to John Cage's seminal collection of speeches and writings from 1961. This book, along with Cage's philosophy on music and art, has had a huge influence on the way I perceive creativity.
Most recently I have begun to fully understand the meaning of Silence. This stillness from within that all creative output is born from. I sometimes refer to it as "the zone" - the moment when you are liberated from thought and are transported into pure creativity. Eckhart Tolle calls it the "now" - in his context I have realised that Silence can happen anywhere, in every day activity.
So these writings will attempt to capture thoughts on these moments. To explore how this develops creativity, and find inspiration in others who use Silence in their own work. And to see how, over time, Silence becomes part of everything.
