In terms of songwriting, the notion of taking Dictation is the process of getting the material from elsewhere. It’s like Jean Cocteau, in his film Orphée, at his car radio, taking dictation straight from the Other. As Cocteau explains, “I feel myself inhabited by a force or being. It gives…
I believe a relationship exists between the meditative state, clearing the mechanism, and being receptive to dictation… In this state, ideas arrive quickly, almost faster than I can write, play, record, or notate them.