Re: [microsound] music is the ultimate incorruptible

[Sean Rooney <srooney@xxxxxxxx>]

i disagree.

1 - music is not a belief system, except inasmuch as a composer may
believe that what he/she has created has some degree of beauty or ugliness
in it. There are no morals attached to music, there are no ethics in the
creation of sound. Music is amoral. Often there isn't intention behind it
either. its simply an exploration of the sensation of hearing.

2 - music is completely corruptible, as is evidenced by the scores of
people who use it to serve their political/spiritual/commercial agenda(s).
One example (by no means the only one)-- Ronald Reagan, noted american war
hawk, uses "Born in the USA" as a campaign slogan when the stated meaning
behind the song is anti-war.

That being said, the act of creating music can be spiritual, just not by
definition. Trying to assign such a level of meaning to music merely
saddles it with unneccessary responsibilities and turns it into yet
another religion to be fanaticized and fundamentalized. Don't you think
there's enough of that as it is?


> brilliantly stated and extremely well written.
>
> sounds like you got some kind of manifesto in the making:) where do i
> sign up? :)
>
> although that said, i have painter friends who feel the same way about
> painting, etc.
>
> i think all art has this potential.
>
> but that's not the point of your treatise.
>
> and with your post in mind, i'm gonna make some music!
>
> all the best,
>
> g.
>
>
>
> Damian Stewart wrote:
>
>> Any structure that one can believe in is corruptible, except music.
>> Any structure or belief system that one can organise one?s life around
>> is fallible, except music.
>>
>> I?ve just moved to a new house, and one of my new flatmates is a
>> Buddhist and a philosophy student. We got to talking tonight, and we
>> ended up talking about morality, about how to structure a world to
>> ensure peace, and eventually, god/spirituality/truth/goodness.
>>
>> Now, I?m mostly a secular kind of guy. I feel spiritually complete,
>> I?m as happy as I want to be, and indeed, need to be. I?m not on any
>> spiritual path, and I don?t feel like I?m searching for anything, or
>> wanting to attain any enhanced mental or spiritual state; I?m happy.
>> My friend Linda Joy who plays guitar and sings is equally secular, and
>> humanistic, and unbelievably happy, and devoted to music with a kind
>> of religious fervour; this is something I have learnt from her, and
>> something that I think every musician, indeed every person, should be.
>>
>> Music is truth. At a live gig, if the night is good, the musicians
>> play well, and the music is amazing, everyone knows it ? the musicians
>> know it, the audience knows it. Shared magic happens.
>>
>> This is the ultimate goal of all musicians, and by extension, of all
>> music: to share Music with an audience. This goal is incorruptible,
>> because the truth only happens when the musicians let it happen; and
>> when the musicians let it happen, the audience knows. It?s not
>> something you can fake, not something you can imagine or put on.
>> Either it?s there, or it isn?t. There are no masks to hide behind,
>> there are no hidden agendas or secret plots, there are no power
>> disparities. There is just Music.
>>
>> Music will change the world. Musicians, who are as we speak beating
>> out the templates for the next cultural revolution, are collaborating
>> with other musicians from around the world at the speed of email, of
>> podcasting, of the time it takes to find another musician?s website or
>> a netlabel and send out a sliver of communication.
>>
>> Our land is Creative Commons, our communication is podcasting, our
>> religion is Music. We are a strength that cannot be beaten, an
>> incorruptible force of truth.
>>
>> We are making the future.
>>
>> We are making it right.
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