29/12/2004

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Am I a thief?

Filed under: — Mikolaj at analog clock showing 7:36

Sooooo I started this blog, I made it greenish, quite to my liking. What I was missing was some unusual design element, a special twist, extraordinary touch. So I came up with the idea of using the titles in Morse code, their linear appearance making for good separators. The idea is not fresh, namely one of my cds - global communication 76:14, has the band name written in Morse on the cover. So I dug out the cd:

cover of global communications 76:14 album

And it is greenish! Like this very site! Argh!

That’s not the first time it happens to me - Now and then I discover that I put efforts into reinventing someone else’s wheel - like when I was taking classical guitar courses, for instance. I composed a march, In what I believed was a genuine creative effort, I wrote what was playing in my head. A couple of months later I found my march in an etudes book! Hmmm… how did it appear in such a place? Mystery, mystery…

All in all, no-one, except myself, would have a faintest idea about any link whatsoever between this cd and my site, that’s a pure coincidence, so why should I worry? Just because I have a strong post-factum gut feeling?

Or maybe? What things could there be, that are someone else’s, but I sincerely believe are mine? Attitudes? Political opinions? Life? And how to really tell the genuine from a mere copy?

Back to the cd: It is a really good ambient-spacey-landscapes kind of stuff. Lengths of songs are their titles, same with the cd title itself - The idea is to not influence the listener’s imagination - so the authors. Good for relaxing, dreaming and falling asleep to (unless your stereo wakes you up with this stupid mechanical noise, when it turns off, as mine does :-))

Update: I have just seen a two-cd extended edition - one is THE 76:14, another is a bonus cd - don’t waste your time, you can throw the bonus away without much regret…

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Mikolaj Swidzinski