Dissonance makes me feel good

Hmmm, yes it does. Something about two clashing notes that send my senses into overload. My earlier life as a cellist gave me the opportunity to play and experience some of the most exciting music that's ever been composed, that of the 20th century composers such as Shostakovich, Martinu and Stravinsky. So, I wrote a song about it. When I used to gig this song around the traps with my acoustic duo, I had a rather obvious question once "huh? but where's the dissonance in the song?" (the question came from a drummer who once did a session for a very internationally famous group and I think likes to cling on to that glory).

However, my question is, do I really have to write dissonance into a song about dissonance? Do I really have to be that obvious? Hmmm, I grant my listeners with a bit more imagination and intelligence. The song is more about the feeling that I get from a little dissonance, how it sends my body a quiver and my ears a tingling and well, you get the drift. I hope that it will not be dubbed as banal as Alanis Morrisette's "Ironic" which had no trace of ironic content in the lyric, although I guess the fact that a song written about ironic moments in life without irony is slightly ironic...but even that's pushing it.

As I write, I am mixing the intro to A Little Dissonance, which may be the very first song on the new album. Haven't decided yet...

A-L