Music Making, Mysticism, and Mirth

Life is the Music and Nobody Can Resist DANCING

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First, a few links:
Music to me is a language, much as in my own area of study mathematics is a language, and the feelings, emotions, thoughts, ideas, wisdom that can be conveyed with music extend far beyond any spoken and written languages we've evolved so far. Indeed music is a force for communication that extends into our roots well before the spoken word, and thus I feel it is part of that "common link" that brings us all together. Certain styles draw certain folks, and when those folks come together under the mirthful auspices of creating and sharing music, magick is made.

I would rather see this site develop as a musical interest project - sound bites, original compositions (of several varieties; performed and digitized or purely synthesized), essays on music, provocative tidbits from musical history. What are your musical interests? Let's hear about them! Just finished an assignment for your musical history class? Consider displaying your wares and projects here!

My own musical interests spawned the movement into the HipFaerie project, as well as the social nuances that surround those musical forms. Please contribute something of your musical self to the evolution of this portion of the site.

Until this thing takes shape, I'm afraid all I'll be adding are links.

"Music should be thought of as the desire for an ecstatic relationship to life."
--Keith Jarrett

"That's missing in the music world now. People's attention spans are so short that they don't want to hang around for the digging, they just want to hear the treasure. But the search is part of it. Otherwise you won't appreciate the treasure."

--John Medeski

from the jacket of Jamie Janover's CD "Realms":
"That which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Music is indivisible. Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them to events or objects in the world. What gives music its universal appeal is the very fact that it is at the same time the most subtle and intangible and the most primitive of all arts ... The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead. Too many people are trying to justify the precision with which organized musical sound is produced rather than the energy with which is manipulated ... Time is to the musician what space is to the painter ... We can look away from pictures but we can't listen away from sounds. It is not necessary to understand music; it is only necessary to enjoy it. Of all the Arts, music is practiced most. The more you love music, the more music you love."

--Unknown

There ain't nothin wrong with the way he moves
Or Scarlet Begonias or a touch of the blues.
There's nothin wrong with the love that's in his eye;
I had to learn the hard way to let him pass by
To let him pass by.

--Shaggy's gender modification of "Scarlet Begonias," which I do most often when I sing this song, envisioning all the lovely boys of the Deadhead extended family

"Live music is a spiritual practice and the goal is to bring everyone into complete awareness and presence."

--Cliff Starbuck, bassist for Ekoostik Hookah
Updated 1/26/02
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