Living Music – A Live Experience

I have an idea for a creative new form of poetic expression - a kind of real life, walking music video montage. It is nearly impossible to recreate the three dimensional sights, sounds, smells, and touches of the world around us. Even with sight arguably being the most sensational of these physical interactions, a movie falls short. It’s being able to look all directions, focus in on a subject, or squint into the sun.

I’d like to accompany this experience with music. It would be kind of like a walking tour but with music. A real living music video, where the person walks along an author’s predefined path listening to predefined music. The goal of the author would be to recreate the feelings he experienced or wants to experience during his walk.

We all have those moments. Our ears silenced to the outside world by the music playing into our heads. Observing the outside world can almost seem surreal as the music inspires self reflecting thought. This is especially true when the music matches our mood and surroundings. Although it’s hard to predict the mental state of the listener, the goal of the author should be to coerce the listener into a particular mood using sight and sound. Of course, this sounds precisely like a movie or music video, but I think by using the real world it can be much more.

In the end, like most of my ideas, I would like to see others pursue this thought more so than myself. Though I will try. The idea will go in the large scrambled queue that resides in my brain, notebook, and this blog.