Musings on Music (mostly)

One of the characteristics of creative artistic thinking is to make non-linear connections that are less obvious, and when they are, spin them in such a way to make them novel. More conservative thinkers tend to think in a linear path, such that skipping directly from point A to point H cannot be possible without first proceeding sequentially from B through G. Creativity depends on the ability to bridge (or "wormhole") those gaps so that the viewer can easily cross them, or interpolate two disparate entities separated by gaps in knowledge, traditions, ideas, objects, metaphors, etc. The primary criticism of non-linear artistic behavior is that people don't "get" it. (David Lynch thrives on that.) "Off-kilter" (huh?) is a common comment about something that is not completely square with tradition and/or expectation. Preference for liking something probably isn't that much different from liking or disliking certain foods, that apparently can be g...