Songs are audio portraits set inside a musical soundscape of various dimensions - height, depth, width, length.  What creates these sounds and where they are placed inside the musical soundscape mold and shape the audio portrait.  What's in the foreground?  Background?  What's on each side?  What's above and what's below?  The audio portrait communicates the central idea of the song and moves that idea through time and space.  Here's THE question: Can you hear the story, does it grab you musically and is it based on universal themes? If the answer is "yes," then you are on your way to creating a musical masterpiece.

Just some musings on a peaceful Sunday afternoon.

JJ