Boxes sum up how we attempt to compartmentalise and arrange the world around us.. Boxes are everywhere, commodities are bought and sold in boxes, you go for a job and you fill out some forms and tick the boxes that say who you are, your facebook and myspace profiles are neatly arranged in boxes, you go to the polling stations and tick the box of what party you want to vote for then you place the slip in the box, Houses are fenced all around and boxed off from the rest of the world. Boxes act in this song then as a metaphor for separation, how we define who we are as certain categories and classifications.
Composing and performing music allows me to get in touch again with what i call the unboxed self, although i am composing in particular genres and in the popular song mode and i purposely self-reference how the music is in itself in its own box in the song, composing and performing music allows me to play with and thus challenge my own box concept.
