Sound & Vision

I suppose I’m not the only one in the world who makes a connection between music and photography, but I’ve recently become aware that there is for me at least a very strong correlation.

This is particularly evident in my interactions with Flickr, which are approaching addict level. For example, recently, a virtual friend of mine on Flickr posted this rather attention grabbing image…

Predator …
Originally uploaded by Yubi4.

Now, Yubi4 clearly sees spiders in a somewhat different light to me. It’s not that I’m terrified of them, or that I don’t find them interesting, but I don’t exactly find them attractive. However, thinking of a completely different perspective on spiders made me recall the lyrics to Brian Eno’s “Spider & I”, which I instantly posted as a comment. I doubt that Eno had any intention for these lyrics to be taken as anything other than sound, but then again, they are rather poetic (and he’s far more of a romantic than he is ever given credit for - imho). Anyway, “Spider & I” was on a record called “Before and After Science”, and this worked away in my background processing, until it retrieved the photo from my mental archives that fits the title - which I therefore posted:

Associations creep in everywhere. A few weeks ago, a verse from the song Priest=Aura by the band The Church popped into my head, and I decided to illustrate it.

An enemy often = an adorer

…and Priest = Aura

I doubt that any of my visitors on Flickr had the faintest idea what I was going on about - or indeed cared … or maybe, unbeknownst to me, there are whole groups dedicated to photos illustrating lyrics by Steve Kilbey. But anyway, I seem to be making these associations all the time.

Since I’m currently in a phase where I’m listening to a set of old ELO songs, heavens what that will trigger….