What Is Music?
It's late morning on Saturday, I'm avoiding diving into my list of stuff to do and instead tooling around the net looking for interesting streams to listen to between tracks in my iTunes Library.
I just went from Queen's "Radio Ga-Ga" to Samarai Celestial "Celestial Enlightenment" - earlier this morning it was Roots Manuva and Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra interspersed with tracks from Chris Whitley's "Living With The Law" followed by Cinematic Orchestra.
At some point during this I got an email that Robert Randolph and The Family Band will be playing at the Yahoo! Holiday Party I am attending with Erik tonight. They of course are not the headliner - the freaking headliner is Earth Wind And Fire.
My head started to spin inside, "where I am?", this "playlist" is taking me in 150 different directions one right after the other and tonight I'll be..... where .... Robert Randolph's sure to take me to some gospel paradise in the midst of a 7,000 person party of the hightest corporate order.
Amidst the cacophony I thought to myself "this is psychotic, what the fuck is music anyway?" To call all of these widely divergent expressions one thing seems to point to the idea that that one thing - music - really ought to be redefined in our culture.
Like I think it's easy in our consumer driven society to think of music strictly in terms of the forms in which we consume it instead of the broad form of expression that it is.
Once you push the CDs, iPods, Rhapsody Subscriptions, Limewire tracks away music is a portal to vibrational dimensions that may or may not exist in the vibrational reality we live, breath and wander around in.
So what does that make musicians anyway?
It's late morning on Saturday, I'm avoiding diving into my list of stuff to do and instead tooling around the net looking for interesting streams to listen to between tracks in my iTunes Library.
I just went from Queen's "Radio Ga-Ga" to Samarai Celestial "Celestial Enlightenment" - earlier this morning it was Roots Manuva and Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra interspersed with tracks from Chris Whitley's "Living With The Law" followed by Cinematic Orchestra.
At some point during this I got an email that Robert Randolph and The Family Band will be playing at the Yahoo! Holiday Party I am attending with Erik tonight. They of course are not the headliner - the freaking headliner is Earth Wind And Fire.
My head started to spin inside, "where I am?", this "playlist" is taking me in 150 different directions one right after the other and tonight I'll be..... where .... Robert Randolph's sure to take me to some gospel paradise in the midst of a 7,000 person party of the hightest corporate order.
Amidst the cacophony I thought to myself "this is psychotic, what the fuck is music anyway?" To call all of these widely divergent expressions one thing seems to point to the idea that that one thing - music - really ought to be redefined in our culture.
Like I think it's easy in our consumer driven society to think of music strictly in terms of the forms in which we consume it instead of the broad form of expression that it is.
Once you push the CDs, iPods, Rhapsody Subscriptions, Limewire tracks away music is a portal to vibrational dimensions that may or may not exist in the vibrational reality we live, breath and wander around in.
So what does that make musicians anyway?
posted by Stacia @ 10:52 AM
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