music

[The Destroyer of Societies]

There's a common school of thought out there that says that music has to reach certain standards, fit into a certain box. But I honestly think that the standards, the box, if you will, is a totally relative idea. I mean, Babies learn to smile by mimicing their mother's facial expressions, in order to get a response from the mother. And that mimicing is an infants survival instinct. It's what they know will get them noticed, which is, what they know will continue to get them fed. It's a survival instinct that we learn to hone and sharpen and refine as we get older, into a tool that will help us to earn a decent living. It's also become an instinct gone haywire, in a lot of ways.

Mimicing can have it's good points though. They say that if you try the same thing over and over again and expect different results from it the next time around, that's absolutely unrealistic, and utterly insane. However, if you have an idea, and try to turn it into a reality, auditorilly, you may be mimicing yourself, over and over again, during the process of trying to make the idea into a reality, and the whole process it's self is a mimicing of an already existing idea, which resides only in your mind, of course. However the process is not a true mimicing of the exact rendering of the original attempt. Because the reason why there is another and another and another attempt is because there is a need and a desire to and an attempt to change the original to better fit the standards, the box of the already existing idea.

This is where, I imagine, musical standards originated from. The minds of individuals who all have individual ideas and ideals and original, personal thoughts and feelings to express. Which is why I feel that people really ought to just throw away this whole standard thing, this "how-it-should-be-done" garbage, and figure out where they really stand, when it comes to the important things in life, and take a stand, and reflect on how they feel about all that, within their own souls, then try to make the two meet, through audible, melodic expression. A very powerful expression, one which calls more attention to it's self than merely spoken words, or muted actions. Mind you, the three must be in sync, otherwise the whole project was in vain, because the meaning is diluted.

[Stacy]

That was amazing!
I also agree.
=]

[ali]

WOW great point! I agree.