The Ace of Wands can be considered an offering of pure inspiration or passion. This Wand is a new and exciting idea, it is that lightbulb moment as depicted in cartoons. Whether we speak of the sciences or history or literature or the arts, we need the inspiration that first occurs as a mere pinprick of light in the mind.
If we revere any human creation, we must give praise to the mystery of that initial spark of creativity that becomes the desire to manifest our inner forms. Our creative and innovative potentials must be respected and nurtured in their most clumsy and fledgling forms because this is how all things, both great and small, begin.
We must also believe that what is uniquely our own has inherent value because this is how we develop what will one day live outside of ourselves. We require the confidence born from own deepest need to see something enter the world in order to bring forth either that which can be compared to similar undertakings or that which has never before been done. Neither one of these is better than the other or even more assured of being received, but each requires us to know that what we have created is worthy.
Daphne Oram (1925-2003) is a legend who could easily be called the godmother of electric music. She began as a sound engineer, a pioneering act of its own for a woman of her era, and she went on to become the director of the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshops in 1958.
Daphne Oram developed her innate interests and talents into a honed set of skills. With a trained ear, newly available technology, her ineffable desire, and some flame of inspiration she invented a form of sound synthesis suitably called Oramics.
Oramics was a method of music composition that feeds an alphabet of symbols on paper through a machine that would then synthesize them into sounds on electronic tape. Daphne Oram’s contribution to electronic music and the noise genre is substantial. Her invention paved the foundation for modern ambient drone music.
Oram made her mark on music and art by allowing her own tastes and passions to be her guide. She said: “In my work, I am not concerned with synthesizing orchestral sounds– we have excellent orchestras for making those sounds. My interest is in making new sounds which are musical.”
So, she did.
May we be overly generous with tender beginnings.
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