The storyscape of Ray Bradbury’s “The Sound of Summer Running” plays with the imagination and nostalgic memories as a limitless place of freedoms. The idea of flow in running is a life factor. Water flows, it has a way of finding paths for flow in even the most seemingly contained measures. Like life itself, liquids like water find ways to get through. Water is life creating, life sustaining, and life cradling and yet try to hold it in cupped hands and it will find ways to seep out between even the tightest squeezed fingers.
Blood, like water and greatly made of water, is life affirming and sustaining. Imagine music sounding like and being such affirmation, its flow following avenues of life experienced and expressed.
Jaco Pastorius’ bass elemental is sound as liquid. In colors and smells and textures that excite the full spectrum of the senses the Pastorius elemental reflects and refracts as it invigorates and pleases.