Audio-izing

Thank you to everyone who clicked onto the Redline Project in the past 24 hours. I am gratified to know so many enjoyed the simple music linked into yesterday's post. One commenter, a distant relative who lives in Germany, wrote a wonderful paragraph dealing with the music's ability to aurally portray the aesthetics and affects of a subdued thunderstorm.

He created a word, audio-izing, that defines the aural equivalent of visualizing. I like this concept, and I feel it is one worth considering when composing any piece of music. What imagery may the sounds create in the listener's mind? To which emotions will these aesthetics be connected? Will the consumer of the music feel that which the composer experiences as the notes are scratched onto staves or into digital recorders?

Reader's comments such as this one justify all of the time and effort poured into the Redline Project. Less than three months ago, music reverberated around my skull. Now it has found a way out, and bounces across oceans to faraway lands. The scope of this project is gargantuan and often overwhelming, but the endeavor continues to pulse tingly electricity through my veins. I have never felt so alive.

Thank you Jan for your steady readership and the time you often take to send a response through the wires. And thank you to a score of others who send notes of affirmation, constructive criticism, and encouragement. You keep my feet moving forward through the murkiest moments of this thick project.