musical pairs

“Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.”
~ Thomas W. Higginson

Or, maybe, Originality is simply the ability to see a fresh pairing.

For the past few days, we’ve been expanding our music library. Let’s take some time today to find news ways to connect these new pieces of our growing puzzle.

TODAY’S CREATIVITY CHALLENGE:

Look through your music library, old and new. Create the following pairs of songs:

Two songs that evoke the same emotion
Two songs that evoke opposing emotions

Two songs that represent her version/his version of a specific one-time event
Two songs that bookcase the beginning and ending of a relationship

Two SONGS that seem like the older and newer version of each other
Two ARTISTS that seem like the older and newer version of each other

Two songs that seem related
Two songs that have nothing to do with one another

Two songs that remind you of the same person
Two songs that remind of that person’s enemy

Two songs that remind you of a specific time of life
Two songs that represent your future

Two songs you would want with you if stranded on an island
Two songs you never want to hear again

What happens when you start positioning songs against one another, side-by-side, playing them together, listening to them back to back? Do they tell a story? Evoke a certain narrative? Hear any themes? Is there a larger story to be told here?

I encourage you to attach your song pairings as comments to this blog entry. It would be great to see the results of this exercise.