Everybody listens to music. Why? Because you like it? It makes you feel good? It gets your blood flowing, it relaxes you, or maybe it raises your consciousness?
I’ve always been into music. I couldn’t get enough of it. I had to make it and I had to listen to it. It altered my physical and psychic state. Sometimes I actually believed I got it. An experience that was beyond the body and the brain.
Eventually I became very interested in what actually happens to us when music enters our space. Does it have a scientific explanation? Or who cares?
A lot of people are after experiences where they experience and don’t think. They just are. Music has the ability to take you there……..
Some musicians say that their best performances have been when they don’t remember where they are or what they have just performed. They were in another zone. What is that zone?
I’d love feedback on this subject. Thanks!
December 9, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Great web site. I’m still too brain dead from flu to form words.
It’s like the double rainbow or the black stallion leaping across the road, a grande jete of breathtaking beauty. Or the crow whose song enlivened 400 million gallons of music on 9/22, after the week of deadened pain from 9/11. The artistry and poetry of Piotyr”s bow on string.
I don’t know what any of this wonderful stuff is either, except wave forms clustered in our senses of light, sound, and always happening, in some region of awareness or non-awareness, waiting to be “found”.
Listen as the timbre, tuning and expressiveness come out of the new NASO. Enjoy your new freedom and each other. That is what we all want.
En avant!
December 24, 2006 at 5:48 am
two comments..
as we recently traveled in china, it was wonderful that classical music is played in public area, resteraunts, and background…seems it makes everyone feel good.
also, i think if there was more music in the world, we would truely have less violence. i feel the same way about massage.
ha !
December 24, 2006 at 9:08 am
Thank you so much for your comments. It’s very interesting that China has really embraced Western Classical music. They have produced so many outstanding musicians. They value the arts as an extremely important asset to their culture.
We need more musicians in restaurants and public places here in Northwest Arkansas.
We are working on having North Arkansas Symphony musicians appearing much more often everywhere in the area.