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Ajhon
Joined: 27 Nov 2009
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Lisa Responds – 27 January 2010:
Question from Lissa~Kathe: when I am in that ‘space’ of creating a piece of music, I have learned more and more to trust that the music itself is ‘telling me the truth’ … that in giving it ‘form’ means it can be shared … and then it is important I defend it as if my own child and at the same time .. that I can let it go … like the way we need to let our children go, to grow… Lisa, do you ever ‘feel’ something like this … I used to be so precious about my music, but I think that may have prevented me ‘growing’….?
Absolutes
As artists we cannot at any cost deny the works. They are the very reason that we in our embryonic way entrust those things that inspire us so that we may communicate some beauty, some truth to those things that we can’t walk away from.
Memory
Why, after 15, 20, 30 years would be remember one incident? Could it be that it might be the beginning of a cycle that may enable us to come into contact with an absolute? Truth is the only thing we can trust.
When we surrender, whether it be to music, to prayer, to weeding or to washing our hands, we see into the aftermath of that which is millions and millions of years old and given time, we ask the question ‘why?’
If we can smile after asking this question, even if it is to laugh at our own selves, then the orrs of our boats remain strong and we are allowed to continue the journey so that the architecture that we hope to create is not designed but a craft worthy of sending those forward.
Stay strong Lissa, you’ve chosen probably the most difficult path, because it forces you to look inside yourself, a place no one wants to see. You have friends. They may be few and far between, whether it be our last journey or our first. Lets remain, because by the grace of some poetic empathy, we’ve been given a glimmer into those things that good can be perceived as true.
Question from christophe: What about the children’s book you had begun to write years ago?...Did you leave that project behind? Was it just a book or was music added to the text? I’d love sooo much a book of yours with lullabies to go to sleep at night…
Every piece of music that is given to us is for the child inside. The book that was to be a panacea can’t exist until we can rest knowing that those children that cry out to their parents that aren’t there can be heard.
The story that I wanted to tell was one for children that were safe in their beds. But how can I finish that story when I know there are children that are not safe? There is a conversation that we can continue beyond this point that can’t be discussed today, but know this: It has not been forgotten and when every child is safe then that story book will come out, and not before.
Question from oestre: Do you have any ‘guilty’ pleasures when it comes to other musicians work? I seem to recall it being mentioned at some point that you were a big Depeche Mode fan, and many were floored at that, even. Of course we got a bit of insight with “All Along the Watchtower”.
There isn’t a musician alive that I don’t have an empathy with. The story that is born between the tongue and the heart can only come from experience and when we create an arc with those others that have told that story honestly, that we were too terrified to tell, we tell it, and we ride on the back of their innocence.
Music is a tricky path as are all paths. We will weep but if we don’t then do we grow? For are the tears that we cry the very essence of rain poured upon our souls that grow and bring new birth to unseen things. Don’t hope to end your journey earlier then it should end, enjoy moment by moment the journey so that others might remember the end with joy. This is how I enjoy other musicians work.
Also from oestre: In your own children’s musical tastes, do you find yourself shaking your head sometimes, or is it just accepted as part of their own journey?
Being allowed to enter into the sacred land of my children’s music, it could be you. It could be my mother, it could be my next door neighbour, or it could be someone I haven’t even met, but when you are invited into their world, a place where they take off their mask, then it’s a place to dance. And whether we forget the next day or not, we’ve grown, and if we hear the same tune twice, does it mean that we need to look inside longer on these things? Is it a place that our children are showing us longer on these things? Lets just take one moment as it comes. Let’s not look into the future or into the past. Let’s be rewarded and celebrate the moment that comes when we’re invited into the sacred moment of those things that mean something to them.
Question from tonyk: Dear Lisa, I have a question regarding your wonderful poetry (I love the poems on the Come Quietly CD). Have you ever considered to release a poetry book? And maybe including a CD with you reciting the poems?
Tony, I remember when I was 14 years old and my friend Frank Loveici had thrown his books out of his window and cars were running over them and he was filming them. It was outside the Provincial Hotel in Johnson Street. We used to go to his place and eat pasta and he used to read books. It was as though there was a reason to be here, you could see it in the back of his thumb, he always looked worried. I never understood what he read completely, but I knew that when he read that he meant it. When I look at my own poetry, it’s that of a child, but because I heard Frank Loveici read poetry I feel that it gives me a right to also write it.
Question from texrah: Aside you’re your music, do you have strong feelings about global warming? Politics?
Strength comes from laughing at pain. An old Irish friend told me once ‘there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing’.
We have no power over the powers that are destroying (temporarily) their own inhabitants.
Live for now because they are not going to go away. I had this idea the other day that maybe we should move underground, but I know that we’re going to die anyway, so what difference does it make?
All we can do is the best we can because those powers that are just so fucking greedy and that don’t give a shit about anybody except their own bank account have no right to be dignified in this conversation.
So be well, and take cover. I don’t have a solution, but I know that if we love each other, that in some way there will be some abstract chariot that will lead us out to a place where we will meet in our dreams.
Question from Diogo Andrade: The first topic in the “To Those Who Care” thread is about homosexuality. In a religious vision, what do you think about it? I know that you must be very careful when responding but what do you think about it?
For one thing, never look at anything religiously. Lets take politics out of the equation.
Wherever you want to look, you probably need to use your wisdom, but when it comes to love, it’s a god thing, and there’s this scripture in the bible, and I know nobody wants to hear about the bible, but it says that if you know love, you know god, because god is love.
So if you love absolutely, then god is with you, love is with you, and you can only create a fantastic influence in the world because you will sympathise through the gentleness of your compassion, so much so that you will never be judged. I love you.
Question from christophe: I remember Jacek mentioning a while ago that you played the theremin. What do you think of this instrument? It makes me think of a yangquin in a way. Have you created songs with it? .
The moment that I really loved the theremin was when Portishead actually managed to tune it, god knows how.
I remember seeing this video of a woman with a long plait, a Russian lady, and she was the first theremin player in an orchestra, and there are theremin’s in UCLA in America I believe.
I love the way you can’t walk away from it, but I don’t play that instrument, although I can’t walk away from my signing and I can’t walk away from all of you.
I suggest we put orange headscarves on and just relax for a day or two, and not worry so much about things. Is that a bad idea? Lets just remember how to be friends because if we weren’t looking for friendship, we would never have written music in the first place.
Stay well everyone and keep the questions coming,
Lisa x |
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