I thought would give the song more resonance. Like in the second part, ‘Wheels within wheels.’ It’s not a traditional song there’s no real verse/chorus/verse/chorus, but there are certain melodies like that that I felt deserved to appear more than they did. There were things in the arrangement that were a little shortchanged in the original song. It kind of went away in our live show for many years, and when we brought it back, we changed the arrangement a bit. To get the tide pool sound, Neil and Alex “splashed oars in the lake with shivering hands,” Neil says in the Permanent waves tourbook. We didn’t use any sort of synthetic echo on the water track.” (Guitar Player, 1980)-Alex in Merely Players “Once we had the guitar track down, we stuck a speaker cabinet outside-this was up at the studio in Morin Heights, Quebec-and we recorded the natural echo off the mountains in combination with the sound of splashing water and Geddy’s voice. It was the product of a whole host of unconnected experiences, books, images, thoughts, feelings, observations, and confirmed principles, that somehow took the form of ‘Natural Science.'” (Personal Waves)-Neil in Merely Players On the third day of my confinement this phenomenon arrived at last, and something new began to take shape. It seems as if the creative mind slips into a burst of overdrive, allowing a brief, exhausting, but productive surge in the creative process. (Jim Ladd Innerview) There is no doubt that working under pressure can be rewarding, as we have found many times in the studio. They think you have to eradicate science to control it. It’s become the same thing with science, where people don’t understand it, and are afraid of it. “Obviously the original relationship between man and nature was that he had to tame it in order to survive, and that became more and more sophisticated and out of hand, and finally it just became destruction. The piece discusses “the balance between the natural and the synthetic world and how integrity of purpose could allow us to reach an equilibrium between control and understanding through science.”-David Bradley, Sciencebase Like the synthesis or balance in ‘Cygnus,’ art needs to be balanced with science.”-Robert Telleria, Merely Players The quantum leap forward seems inspired by the transitional evolution scene in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Life in a tidal pool is likened to our own little world in the big universe.
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