Building your Dreamboat

Building your Dreamboat.

Here's an abstract thought for you; Seems so obvious and something we all take for granted, but imagine being the first person who thought of building a vessel and sailing it down river. Or being Galileo, Darwin or Edison and coming back to Earth 300 years later, to discover that what you thought of as ground breaking, has now become so ordinary that no one really cares, and yet they couldn't do without it.

I wonder if they knew, when they invented their theories, how important a discovery they were? I wonder if Tim Berners Lee realises just what an impact he has had on the world with his invention of the World Wide Web, or if Stephen Hawking will be known in 300 years time for his monumental exploration into the anatomy of a black hole.

Have I gone mad? What has all this got to do with music?

Well, humour me for a second and imagine this... what if, just like the guy who first worked out you could sail down river on a boat, someone put all those scientific discoveries together and invented a way we, as human beings, made up mostly of electro charged hydrogen and oxygen in the shape of water, could transport ourselves down the Super Highway, using the Earth's own Magnetic Field.....
Mind boggling, isn't it?
Well, what if that then lead to super speed space travel using Black Hole suction technology? Ok Ok, now I know I've gone mad.

Ah, but, what if you used all the influences of all of the great songwriters of all time and created some amazing sounds and lyrics that completely blew peoples minds... Would you have a hit? Would you be appreciated? Would you have invented a new Genre? Maybe, but writing a hit isn't enough to make it a hit. Not in this day and age.

There are too many songs out there already, too much white noise for you to get noticed unless you cut your ear off and commit suicide by jumping off of the Empire State Building with a parachute made from copies of your latest CD.
Will people actually be playing CD's at all in 5 years time? Will they turn out to be one of those inventions that didn't last the test of time?
How do you know, when you invent something, that it will be important enough to last and become a part of our very fabric?
How do you know you're not just going mad and that the haters are the true winners?,
The only thing you can be sure of, is that the River is your journey, the far off bank is your dream destination and your song is your boat. It may crash on the rocks. It may sail on for a while before someone points out it has a hole in it. You might even build several hundred prototypes before you find your Dyson, and maybe even put all your life savings into creating your own Millennium wheel like husband and wife team Julia Barfield and David Marks. Either way, you'll only know when you start experimenting and exploring possibilities in your mind and in the outside world.

Graham Turner – Blogger

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