The sounds echoed longer than they should have when they were created. The lights lingered longer than they would have when they passed by your vision. The moment lasted longer than it does when you are enjoying yourself so much.
Some say that there is no taste and smell to music. I tell them to witness its creation.
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A: Gosh, how your words rise up to meet my soul...I swim in your words, immersed in something murky, yet, full of everyting--if you know where to look for everything. ;-) dawn
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you never disappoint. your words always put me deep in thought. I love your final thought.
'some say that there is no taste and smell to music'.
The creative process is so fascinating. I like how your words, though simple, evoke something of it.
I suspect it has similarities whatever the field: music, art, literature, religion and spirituality - for that matter, as I understand it, science. From the limited reading I've done on the lives of the really great ones, like Einstein, that's the sort of process that happens for them too.
not only to witness, but to create it yourself is a bliss hardly matched by any other human experience! have you been making some yourself?
Reminds me of the Shiv kumar Sharma performance I attended - it was my first music concert and I'd been completely enraptured. I vaguely remember thinking along the same lines as you...
Agree with Paul about it being the same in any creative process...
Was just reading Luna and Gulnaz' last entry. There is a blogger theme weaving itself together with different perceptions of how to be present.
Beautiful presenation of the lights and sounds lingering.
wow, you've convinced me and i hope i can experience this feeling one day. wonderful post (again!)
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The times I feel closest to the divine are when I am at a live show. There is something about certain artists, when they birth their music and you realize that their art is flowing through hundreds of people at once... permeating them... it is really an amazing thing.
you descibed this art of creation so perfectly!
The sacredness of creation. Watching a spark slowly grow into a raging inferno.
It's awe-inspiring to watch the creation of anything - music, chaos, poetry, anarchy...almost anything.
here you are again.. capturing my heart. im skipping the thoughts of the others just to get closer to you. and yet i wish just to be the faint music on your background.
this is my second entry hiding with no name, leaving no clue. for music has a smell and you linger as i taste every beat.
I'm here after some time. But what can I say, brilliant as ever.
i have always been awed by the process of creation, the making of music being topmost there on the list.
its absolutely wonderful how you take an experience, a sight and sound experience but still an abstract experience and paint it in words.
'The moment lasted longer than it does when you are enjoying yourself so much.' this is why music is a metaphor for those other moments.
your post makes me wish i was at a rock concert or some such place. :)
dawnprince, DeeM, transience - Thanks. Am glad you like it.
Paul, Ramchi, Manjusha - Yes, any creative process is as mind blowing, but there is something about music that just fascinates me beyond the others. Thanks for your thoughts.
wandering dervish - Completely agree. I only wish I could make some myself.
Geetanjali - I can identify with that feeling of being completely enraptured.
mermaid, Anonymous - Thanks.
Lorena - I am sure you will!
small squirrel - It really is an amazing feeling.
Akshay - Good to have you back. Thanks.
gulnaz - Thanks. Glad you could relate to the post. Agree with you on why 'music is a metaphor for those other moments.'
rebel_heart - Thanks for dropping by and commenting.
I totally, totally agree with you....to witness any creation right from the arts, science to the most wonderful and precious of all-birth is something to be cherished and remembered...love the way you have ended it....
(may I know which band/group's creation you witnessed?)
Yes, I wonder what actual music it was. Or does that really matter.
Nice writing.
BTW I like your blog background. Very distinctive and unusual.
It'd not the smell of music, actually, but the smell of guitars that hits the note for me.
cool words. i experience music totally
smell of music.......made me think and feel!
creation..... its magic can only be felt anf five senses are not enough
Awesome work, as expected :-)
Reminds me of PULSE by Floyd.
Wish you more musical moments :-)
Best wishes
Luna
Perfect moment,when living in the moment melts effortlessly into thoughts such as these.
Great going!
"Some say that there is no taste and smell to music. I tell them to witness its creation." Great thought. Great music brings out palpable sensations in us -- more than just the notes echoing physically off of the insides of our ears.
I just put up a post on my site on music. It's called "Sonic." You are invited to stop by and take a look at your convenience. If it strikes you, I would be interested in any comment that you might have.
Thanks
Anil - Thanks. Glad you think the same. Have seen many different bands over time, this was an outcome of several experiences.
Roger Stevens, Potted-flower - Thanks for dropping by and for your comments. Look forward to seeing you around.
Billy, jenn see, luz de la luna, Prat - Thanks.
samudraa - Glad it did.
Brood Mode - Perfectly said.
Rahul, johnny crash, rubyq - The picture reminds me of Floyd too.
Anonymous Poet - Will drop by and check it out now.
True music has its own creation..Music has no language it goes beyond being a languge goes beyond race and nation
Music is certainly a language for the soul
"Some say that there is no taste and smell to music. I tell them to witness its creation".....Music has its own taste,feel and to enjoy it one needs to linger on for that moment..!This is a beautiful and powerful piece
I agree - sometimes we hear so much music these days that it is so easy to forget the process behind it.
I've had the opportunity to witness "the making" a handful of times, and like you've said - "The sounds echoed longer than they should have when they were created"...yes indeed, it's a truly uplifting experience.
finnegan - I guess that since it 'hits' all the senses, it gets etched in your memory.
iamnasra - Completely agree. Thanks for your comment. Look forward to seeing you again.
Jyotsna - Thanks.
musafir - Thanks for sharing your perspective.
mediocre verse, sloppy thinking mixed with truckloads of sentimentalism aka a good start.
Anonymous - Whatever!
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