The Fine Art of Time Manipulation
Time Element
Sat, April 25, 2009 - 2:02 PM
Music might be defined as the art of filling time with sound. Music is allowing me to come back to the beginning of Time, and begin anew.
I'm not very old yet, but this is how it should've been since the very beginning.
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Sat, April 25, 2009 - 3:15 PM
I love the way you describe it. I can spend hours just playing nonsense on the keyboard. It is amazing how playing can become a tool of inner healing and meditation...
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Sat, April 25, 2009 - 3:55 PM
are you learning to play...
...or just appreciating listening?
your approach is quite different. your approach is quite interesting and i have to step outside of myself to really hear what you are saying. music can be a sort of time-travel. i find that calling that feeling "nostalgia" trivializes it -- i think you can move back and forth on your own timeline (at least emotionally.) |
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Sat, April 25, 2009 - 5:28 PM
This is exquisite, the way you've described this phenomenon. It evokes for me ideas that I was only recently exposed to from English Romanticists of the 17th and 18th centuries who spoke of the *sublime* as being a separate experience from the beautiful, inasmuch as both bring pleasure—but that which is sublime evokes an additional measure of awe that might even be described with words such as "pain," "horror," and "despair." To that extent, they said, the sublime is qualitatively completely different from the beautiful... Perhaps in the way that a tsunami is qualitatively completely different from a wave?
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Sun, April 26, 2009 - 3:35 AM
Yes Khrysso, Sublime is definetely what is taking place here.
And T, learning to play = appreciating listening. And I credit Dr. Overtone on that powerful realisation. |
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Mon, April 27, 2009 - 1:59 AM
W.A. Mathieu?
I've forgotten whether or not you're familiar with the writing of W.A. Mathieu:
www.coldmountainmusic.com/books.html I own the first two of these three books listed, and they're wonderful. I think you would love this guy's work (if you don't already love it...). |
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Mon, April 27, 2009 - 2:55 AM
Yes, of course I am. We've talked a lot about him, and he's Dr. Overtone. I wanna re-read The Listening Book and The Musical Life now that I'm learning to make music, and then buy Harmonic Experience (which is a bit too expensive, but I'm sure very much worth every penny.
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