Reviews

"Spontaneous Composition"
Linda Matchan
The Boston Globe - Monday, January 17, 2000

"What is ‘Creative’ music?"

‘Creative’ music and dance do not limit themselves to being identified with any one particular style or idiom, although languages traditionally identified with jazz, classical, modern, etc. disciplines may and are often incorporated into one’s ‘creative’ music or dance expression.  ‘Creative’ here is meant to designate the artist’s immediate and individual connection with the world and its human and non-human elements, which, along with the time in which a work is produced, express an individual’s (or group or ensemble’s) unique artistic expression.

‘Creative’ music refers here to “music which draws from an individual’s intuitive interaction with nature, natural elements and human imagery and experience from which choices are made, leading ultimately to the realization of a completed musical work or living musical language which expresses – to the individual’s satisfaction – his or her own essential ideas and thoughts in a relevant way, often taking into consideration the respective time and corresponding events being experienced.”

Perhaps ‘Creative’ music can convey an individual’s essential message(s), through the art form of music (or dance), to as wide an audience as can be accessed, taking for granted the ‘shared experiences’ of humankind.  This would seem to make sense.

It is the goal of Gravity arts to promote and help facilitate the work of ‘creative’ musicians, dancers and artists in general, and to help them and their art to reach an ever-broader audience, thereby contributing, hopefully, to not only the artist’s own fulfillment and success, but to that of society and the natural world as a whole.

Ben Schwendener