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Music as meditation on the spirit that runs through, and inspite of, everything. And the silences inbetween.
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Philosophy
09/04/2007 By Simon McCorry
One rainy day, when I was living in Watford, I was walking through some local woods hunting mushrooms. In front of me on the footpath was a dry patch of earth where the rain was not hitting. I thought this a good place to stop. I sat and watched a bank of nettles flicker and almost speak to each other. The rain was building up in leaves in the tree above and when the leaf could no longer hold the weight of the water it would flip and drop this on the nettles below. This would push the leaf of a nettle momentarily down. If I stared, not focusing on any particular nettle, there would be a 'field' of twitching nettles, and I could see rhythmic patterns in this. The next realisation was that I was making those patterns, my mind was 'synthesising' disparate events as if they were in 'causal' relationship to each other. I wondered if the same thing happened to the listener in music. After all music is disparate noise events in time, there is no casual relationship between them; one event does not necessarily succeed another.
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