TJ Poynton

My music is influenced by place. Perhaps its just a chance, fleeting glimpse of a clearing in some unnamed woods, or a place that I've never even been to yet (or may never see), these are the things that energise me. If I know nothing of a place I visit, I like to conjure a kind of "false" mythology, a history of that place, that suits my vision, my reading of where my feet are standing on the earth. I like it, It feels right. We've been inventing stories since we could think. But we don't just make stories, they make us. And thats a good thing. Peace, Tom.email Tom at: [email protected]____________________________________ _____________________________________________"The kinds of landscape I try to find in my films...exist only in our dreams. For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films"Werner Herzog ____________________________________________________________ _____________________"We are accustomed to consider Winter the grave of the year, but it is not so in reality. In the stripped trees, the mute birds, the disconsolate gardens, the frosty ground, there is only an apparent cessation of Nature's activities. Winter is a pause in music, but during the pause the musicians are privately tuning their strings, to prepare for the coming outburst. When the curtain falls on one piece at the theatre, the people are busy behind the scenes making arrangements for that which is to follow. winter is such a pause, such a fall of the curtain. Underground, beneath snow and frost, next spring and summer are secretly getting ready. In Nature there is no such thing as paralysis. Each thing flows into the other, as movement into movement in graceful dances; Natures's colours blend in imperceptible gradation; all her notes are sequacious.""Last Leaves" - Alexander Smith ____________________________________________________________ _____________________"All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature."Rudolf Steiner ____________________________________________________________ _____________________“You talked of plans,” Moomintroll went on. “Have you got any yourself?”“Yes,” said Snufkin. “I have a plan. But it’s a lonely one, you know.”Moomintroll looked at him for a long time, and then he said: “You’re thinking of going away.”Snufkin nodded, and they sat for a while swinging their legs over the water, without speaking, while the river flowed on and on beneath them to all the strange places that Snufkin longed for and would go to quite alone."Finn Family Moomintroll" - Tove Jansson ____________________________________________________________ _____________________"This is the forest primaeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers haorm with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.""A Tale Of Acadie" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ____________________________________________________________ _____________________"If you can hold your listener, hold their attention, and you're sure you know what you're doing, and know that you're communicating - You know, performance is communicating. You've got to communicate. You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut."Johnny Cash ____________________________________________________________ _____________________
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