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The Music That I Listen To While Creating Art

As a painter I understand the importance of creating a space specifically to facilitate the creative process. You need an area that is well lit, climate controlled, filled with all your favorite artsy stuffs and when you are finished, you can leave your art and materials set out so they are ready to go just as soon as you are.

Music for me is as much an integral pert of my creative space as all the rest. It helps set the mood and quiet the mind. It helps to calm and focus me and sometimes it helps me to tap into the creative force that drives us all to create. Since this is an important function for any artist, I thought I'd dedicate a lens to the music that does this best for me.

"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story." -HOMER What all of these cd's have in common is that they are primarily musical with very little in the way of a story. Even the artists such as Enya who are all vocals, have such an ethereal quality that my mind is not following the tune or the words but just letting it become a relaxing background.The spiritual substance on which I can create.

All of the musical artists and cd's listed on this lens are actually part of my music library that I listen to when I'm painting.

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CD Cover for Robert Vavra's Horses of the Wind cd.

Robert Vavra's Horses Of The Wind

This is my usual for whenever working on horse paintings. The cd is a musical celebration of horse where the actual voices of stallions, mares and foals are included into the soundtrack.
Horses of the Wind

Horses of the Wind

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Robert Vavra is actually a world renowned equine photographer. I am enamored with his art and so it was only a natural fit for him to create a musical cd featuring horses as well.
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Invoking The Muse by Layne Redmond

Yeah, this one seems like the obvious choice for music to create by. Greek inspired, Layne Redmond created this collection of hymns in tribute to the nine Muses. It is absolutely lovely.
Invoking the Muse

Invoking the Muse

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Enya

Paint The Sky With Stars: The best of Enya

I have many Enya cd's. Her ethereal voice and music is so soft and lovely. I tend to just stick in a cd and hvae it run on a continuous loop while working on a painting.
Paint Sky With Stars

Paint Sky With Stars

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Enya according to Wikipedia (more ...)

Enya born... May 1961, is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and composer. The media sometimes refer to her by the Anglicized name, Enya Brennan; Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.

Enya Video For Orinoco Flow

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NIYAZ

I actually first heard Niyaz playing in a store in a mall. The haunting lyrics grabbed my attention and I asked the the clerk about the music and then promptly bought it. This is one of my favorites by far.
Niyaz

Niyaz

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NIYAZ according to wikipedia (more...)

Niyaz is an Iranian musical trio. The group was created in 2005 by ... Carmen Rizzo... Niyaz in both Persian and Urdu language means "yearning".

Niyaz's music, described as "mystical music with a modern edge" is primarily a blend of Sufi mysticism and trance electronica. Niyaz adapts Persian, Indian and Mediterranean folk sounds, poetry and songs including the poetry of Sufi mystic Rumi, with Western electronic instrumentation and programming.

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Yo-Yo Ma

I love his deep soulful sound. In regards to painting with it he occasionally does some very dramatic music which can pull me out of my trance like state when painting. But sometimes that's okay too.
Sonata for Cello Solo, Op. 8/I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato (Instrumental)

Sonata for Cello Solo, Op. 8/I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato (Instrumental)

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Yo-Yo Ma according to wikipedia (more...)

Yo-Yo Ma ... born October 7, 1955 is an American cellist, virtuoso, orchestral composer and winner of multiple Grammy Awards. He is one of the most famous cellists of the modern age.

Yo-Yo Ma Plays the prelude to Bach's Cello Suite No. 1

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Trance: Authentic Trance Music From Sacred Traditions

This is a box set of various musical traditions. It includes Sufi dervish, Tibetan chant and Indian dhrupad. As well as Moraccan, Balinese, and zen. This is kind of a nice world view on hypnotic and trance musical meditations.
Trance: Authentic Trance Music from Sacred Traditions

Trance: Authentic Trance Music from Sacred Traditions

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Track 3 From Robert Vavra's Horses Of The WInd

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The Mists Of Avalon Soundtrack

A Beautiful And Haunting Soundtrack.

When I watched the mini-series The Mists Of Avalon there were several instances where the music just gave me chills. A sure sign that it speaks to the soul. SO I promptly went out and bought the soundtrack. This is also one the I play a lot of when I'm painting.
Mists of Avalon : Original Television Soundtrack

Mists of Avalon : Original Television Soundtrack

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The Mystic's Dream by Loreena McKennitt

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Loreena McKennitt according to Wikipedia (more...)

Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM, (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined, warbling soprano vocals. She has sold more than 13 million records worldwide.

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What's your favorite musical artist to create with?

  • PeterStreep Nov 10, 2011 @ 4:50 pm | delete
    Thanks Pal!
  • PeterStreep Nov 10, 2011 @ 4:42 pm | delete
    I would like to thank you for stopping by when I just started at Squidoo, it helped me and encouraged me.a lot. A big thanks giving thank you from Peter
    Yo-Yo Ma is wonderful, I love the cello suites.
    great lens.
  • juliavm Nov 2, 2011 @ 5:38 am | delete
    Love this lens. The music is great and inspiring. Thank you.
  • wendygillissen Oct 18, 2011 @ 5:00 pm | delete
    Lovely lens! I use music to inspire me too while I step into my stories... Loreena McKennitt is one of my favourites. I have played The mummer's Dance over and over because it is such a good match to the mood of my books... Nice to see someone who loves Niyaz's haunting music too!
  • euphonicdissonance Apr 8, 2011 @ 1:35 pm | delete
    We all need a place to create. An open space to ease our soul.
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Greetings,

Mona demonstrating at a gallery open houseMy name is Mona Majorowicz I am a professional artist who has been making my living selling my work for some time now. I have been in the art and framing industry for over 20 years. I am an animal artist, (meaning I paint critters) who works primarily in Oil Pastel or Water Soluble Pencil.

I own and operate Wild Faces Gallery with my husband Mike in a small rural town in Iowa. There we sell my original artwork and prints, as well as do quality custom framing and offer Giclee printing for other artists as well as for ourselves

I maintain a blog called Fur In The Paint, as well as write a regular column for Apples 'N Oats (an equestrian magazine) about painting horses.

Animals are my passion and art is how I chose to express it.

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