JODIE ELMS

Can you tell us a bit about you, what influences you?...

(from 'The Brave Moment' Podcast interview 2022)

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"Hm... well, I ‘see’ and physically ‘feel’ sound - as colours and sensations (a neurological difference called Synaesthesia).

This plays out in my melodies; the shape of them has to intrigue me – like wandering over the peeks of a wild mountain range, rather than meandering along a flat pavement. It’s great for writing music - seeing colours, textures of sound.

I adore observing relationships, marvelling at the curious little ways we all carry on in the world; my song ‘Thrift Stores’ is about this – the stories we tell ourselves. Like, charity-shop shopping - ‘I’m saving money (by spending money)… if I buy this or that stuff how fulfilling it will feel (for 10minutes!)’… I find us, me, so sweet and so absurd...

Details and patterns speak to me; the veins of an oak leaf, the dancing halo of a candle flame, the silky moss on the church wall, the telephone wires trapping the sky in geometric boxes… it’s all just so beautiful...

I definitely find inspiration in nature. I love to retreat into quietude - listen to the birds, watch the light change across a land scape, I think it's important to just Be.

I don't know where the songs themselves come from... some other realm perhaps. It's as if they channel down and though me. I am grateful for them... "

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