Songwriting, white noise, and meditation

There is song. No one is singing. This is a verse inspired by the gathas in [[ Sitting with the Buddha ]]. I may like to pray this next time I’m struggling to write a song. It reminds me of that “disappearing” that Jeff Tweedy talks about in How to Write One Song.

Jeff also says, “The ability to write a song is the ability to hear it.”¹

The white noise throughout the universe already has in it every frequency. My job is to just listen for the threads of frequencies that I like and imitate those.

This makes me think of the spiritual “Over my head, I hear music in the air,” and the music of the spheres.

!I want my music to be worthy of the silence it inhabits —Arvo Pärt