Inspiration

Leigh Cotnoir

Original spoken word by Leigh Cotnoir, mixed with samples from Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem Op. 48 (Public Domain), “Going Under” by Dexter Britain (CC), “Radar Scanner” by Norman Hittle (CC), drum beats recorded and sequenced by Leigh Cotnoir. Edited in Audacity.

Transcription

Inspiration is something I find in everything. I can find it in looking at a bird on a wire because I know that it will fly away at some point, or in a stop sign…. Graphically speaking, they are succinct and fundamentally beautiful in their elemental nature, and, well, they inspire change: to STOP. I’d like to think I am inspired by happiness, but the reality is that I feel a lot less creative when I’m happy than when I’m lonely. Loneliness is one of the greatest inspirations for creativity ever. It’s like hot air that really needs to move into a cooler place. No matter, it needs to move. It’s not content staying the same. I think that’s what inspiration is: the motivation to move, to make, to do something. Anything.