SPACE VIBRATIONS
I read this insightful little quote from eccentric “cosmic” musician Sun Ra in David Toop’s excellent Ocean of Sound at the weekend:
“Reality is too harsh. Imagination makes everything nice. Use youR imagination and get out of the most drab places by simply holding on to it and making it real.”
That’s fairly sensical from a man who, for the most part, made very little sense at all - at least to me he didn’t. There’s no doubting the furtiveness of his extraordinary imagination, though...
“I had a vision that I saw some materials that defy description. I saw some jewellery that’s like nothing you’ve got on this planet. It was like a big supermarket that was the supermarket of the Omniverse. Everything in the Omniverse was in the market. I didn’t see any walls. It was so big there were no walls.
“I stopped at one counter where they had some socks. These socks were like they were alive. They were glittering like diamonds. I wondered how that could be. It wasn’t like sequins. This was like they were alive. I wanted to know how much they cost. They said it was ninety dollars for one pair of socks. I said, “Well, I’ve never seen anything like this before. I better go and see about the pants.’ I went over to the pants and they were one hundred and eighty dollars. Finally they said, ‘Since you’re from another place, our tax here for everything is eighty dollars.’
“I was still standing there trying to figure out whether I wanted the pants or the socks. Then I came back here. I wondered, if I had paid for them, would they have been in bed with me?”
