The power of sound

Ideators typically generate ideas through words and images: "In the beginning was the word" or, "a picture says more than a thousand words". Or the dialogue between language (verbal) and visualisation (non-verbal), also described as the picture-word-cycle. Interestingly, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, in 1930, worked on his lectures for Princeton University: 'I must say I have enjoyed writing them'. The six lectures didn't need images, he added. 'Personally, I've never cared much for illustrated lectures. If we might have some good music to begin with and end with - that might help'. Yet Wright's writing and public lecture series provided a new outlet for his ideas. Moreover, on the power of music, the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim, in the first of his five BBC Reith Lectures, in 2013, argued, in examining the transformative power of music in the world: 'In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound'. Furthermore, it has been said that in the beginning was sound. Sound began the whole thing, and in sound resides tremendous power. It opens doorways to other realities, for with the production of sound, energy can move from one system to another. Now, there's a thought for ideators: The power of sound stirring imagination and innovation. Source: Wright quote: Alofsin, A (2019) Wright and New York. New Haven: Yale University Press. Barenboim: https://danielbarenboim.com/the-phenomenon-of-sound/