[microsound] music is the ultimate incorruptible

[Damian Stewart <damian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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f r e y
live music with computers
http://www.frey.co.nz

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