Saturday, December 5, 2009

Keys To Life

So I listened to a friend play piano on skype and, for lack of a better phrase, I felt opened to something new. After listening to Wesley compose in front of me his songs full of absolute misery, David's music was almost like something you'd find in a movie where two people are beginning a type of bond, or even a happy ending song. It was the opposite of what I had listened to with Wesley.
In my honest opinion I find music a better emotional communicator than conversation. Music takes the inner personality that we either store away or ignore and it brings it to noise, to attention, to awareness. When you make something you make it out of familiarity and what it means to you is entirely out of nature and nurture, past experiences and the such, making music and art the best way of expression. There is no one person who can't feel music, some feel it better than others, like a cold wind that has filled you from your toes to your finger tips, or even like a thousand soft petals pressing against your skin. It all might be a bunch of cornbread to you but music moves me more than movies, more than art, more than most writing and much much more than any conversation I will ever have. At first I felt like I might be the oddball of such feelings but I've come to find, through reading The Awakening, that it is natural to feel music, even if only a little.
The smallest piece of music can send someone into a reeling escapade of emotions.

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