I'm a creative and spiritual person with an appreciation of silence and a growing practice in meditation. I love deep listening to people and to nature. As a freelance facilitator of voice work and singing I spend a lot of time listening to people's voices. I'm also a classical composer so spend time at my computer with notation software. Thus the love of birdsong and natural sounds of nature, and also natural, ancient musical instruments like gongs is important to me to balance the intense listening to voices and computer generated sounds I do. Sometimes just resting and listening to the hum passing traffic out the window is enough to relax to. Birdsong is best though.
I have created my own businesses around my love of voice and sound and conduct two signalled improvisation choirs and a workshop practice in healing and improvised singing. I'm usually busy with projects, editing or writing music, workshop sessions, one to one sessions and performances. Occasionally I get commissioned to compose for different groups.
I have been dedicated to my vocation as a musician over the years and am child-free. I have written a lot of commissioned compositions before the financial crisis hit and I became a mid career composer which is much harder than being a young emergent composer. . I am lucky to have a sustaining supplementary income so I get on with what I love.
I have had to learn life lessons about independence and co dependence as I've gone along and had to face those issues. At this point in my life having had some relationships lasting years I've got to see my own habits and short comings. I think my greatest challenge has been to know my own body, which I've sadly taken for granted too much as I've forged ahead with the creative life. That has now caught up with me and I'm taking more time to listen more to my body - ironic given I have spent so much time listening to others and my music too, but when it comes to honouring my body I've let myself down a bit. But that's changing now. I'm building up my strength and starting to take more care of myself.
I would love to meet someone who shared my love of stillness and silence. Sounds odd maybe - but there's nothing I like more than sitting listening to the wind. I like the simple pleasures - enjoying friends, dinner at home with a bottle of fizz, with good friends and great conversation.
I'd love to meet that attuned person who can be present with an open heart. Someone connected to the changing qualities of the vital life force that binds us all together. In a space of openness, being simple and receptive, free of too many concepts and alive to the changing currents of the moment. We could share and witness the waves of each others flow together as they rise and fall. Maybe with that sensitivity, communication would be easier, and if there were misunderstandings we could hear them in a healthy space that exists between us, and then there could be...some true love.
