" Tok means 'path', 'road' or 'gate' but as it is used in song, the sense is more that of 'map'. The device refers to the way that a song, from start to finish, projects not merely a description of places, but a journey. The song is successful when listeners are totally suspended into a journeying mood, experiencing the passage of song and poetic time as the passage of a journey. Constructing a song as a path, or tok, sets the listeners on a journey during which they simultaneously experience a progression of deeply felt sentiments associated with them…All songs are sung from the point of view of movement through lands. The composers craft is not to tell people about places but to suspend them into those places. Singing a place is not a descriptive act but rather one that 'impregnates' identity into place"
an extract from; WILD- an elemental journey by Jay Griffiths
i like this idea of giving the listener or viewer in my case, the ability to project themselves into the place you are describing. i guess it's to evoke an emotional and personal response. i like the idea of my work not describing something specific but acting as a tool to provoke questions in the viewer about themselves and their own relationships with their environment.
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