Tag: playlist art

The Cosmic Pendulums

Ayyy another piece for another playlist. Inspired by the Kingdom of Bamum, their written characters, pictographs, gives me a certain feeling and a whole lotta spark, I did myself staring for hours, dissecting strokes, and imagining the meaning, of what they represent. Then seeing their pre-colonial structures, wow. Hut castles!? So fascinating. I feel how their pictographs and their way of living all mends together, so beautifully.

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Back to the playlist.

As forces swing forth,
Back & forth, subtly setting into balance.
A reminder, that forces heed no time,
Balance comes as it should.
When it swings, it comes into motion.
These motions do not bow to anything, or anyone.
These forces just are,
And time is not of the essence.

Playlists are Paintings

Anyone else here share this same sentiment? I feel an intense release of built up energy whenever I create a playlist. It doesn’t matter if I listen to it a million times thereafter or if just once.

The process of creating playlists gives me so much joy, puts me in a state of clearing, a freeing, being able to go through a magnitude of emotions and process them. To find a song and then group them, each  correlating to a clump of something within, there’s a distinct ping! Each time it matches, such bliss.

Then, I get to play, work and arrange these songs, these sheer auditory energies (musical artists gifting the world with their purest, highest form of expression. It’s pure magic, if you can really ponder the process of how each song is birthed, it’s just pure pure magic!!!) to paint a weighted extravagant, clearer picture of a temporary state of one’s inner world. 

With each song almost like a color tube of paint, raw material, I then get to add, intercede, supercede, by moving around these energies, until it all feels… just right.. Arranging these potencies, shaping an auditory painting, forming it to fit my own inner world. What this means to me is… I get to move, shape, form.. and have a sense of grasp of the temporary chaotic clusters of somethings I feel within, it’s now concretized. 

With each playlist in completion, a chaotic ball of… once unfathomable emotions, energy somethings, gets to be coped with, organized, materialized, expressed, processed. That’s it, the genesis of a playlist.

Playlists are auditory paintings, anyone can dabble with creating them (especially us that aren’t musically trained but are obsessive audiophiles). It’s a way to paint inner worlds in such a cozy, self-nurturing way. Listening to them feels like a warm fuzzy blanket that I can surround myself with at any given time. A blanket made from my own cotton balls of energy somethings that have been released and healed, transmuted if ya’ll will.😌

*I would literally die if Spotify ever goes out of business🥶. If/until then, I get to live.😝 If you have a song/songs you’d like to shoot my way, you’re literally blessing me with a tube of color, sending me free supply to help me paint my woes away, quite literally, and help me disentangle my joys. Feel free to comment a song of your choice, let me paint with it🙏🏽