I love music, and i’ve been thinking about it a lot because my friend Bobby and I have been working on some songs for a thing we have tonight. As I sit here now he’s playing piano in the background, I feel like I have a soundtrack. Do you ever think about how much more exciting or moving things would be if there was a soundtrack to our lives? In the movies like Lord of the Rings the music makes it so much more heroic, so much more inspiring. What is it about music that is so moving. I think that we can really feel music, we hear it, and we sense the emotion. We are vulnerable when we play music becuase what we are feeling at that moment comes out in the form of loud and soft notes pieced together to form lines of music stacked on top of eachother forming harmonies melodies, and finally a song. We connect with music becuase it is beautiful, when we hear a moving song like Fix You by Coldplay it is powerful, our hearts synchronize to the beat of the song, and we memorize the words because on a deep level we can relate to it. Past the lyrics the slow rise of sound maybe we are moved by music because it shows us how when things are placed perfectly together perfectly in tune it is beautiful. Maybe there is a part of us that desires to be perfectly in tune with something and through time we have come out of tune, we’re missing something theres something bigger going on but we’ve lost our place in it.
Music is not just notes, it is an experience, perhaps music is something that ties us to what was originally supposed to be. I like to think that it hasn’t changed that music is one thing that was not broken, and so we are moved when we hear it because it is still in its original form. Or maybe its just simply beautiful.
Mary Margaret Said:
on July 14, 2007 at 2:02 pm
You’re a beautiful writer.
the apprentice Said:
on July 14, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Good one Eden. I love your perspective.
Mary Margaret Said:
on July 14, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Your page is so pretty.
Angie Said:
on July 18, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Eden! I’m so glad you’re a blogger! Born to blog! Ha! Well… from this post, I’d say you were born to make an unforgettable harmony in my life… You so remind me of the tune that has been played since before time!
“Fix You” is definitely one (of several) on that album to put on ‘repeat’!
I am seriously glad you’re blogging… Your blogs were the highlight of your MySpace page. I really look forward to reading you, my friend!
edensgarden Said:
on July 18, 2007 at 9:45 pm
ANGIE!!! I’ve been trying to find you on here, and I was secretly hoping you’d find my page. I’m so glad you did, and thanks for those words, they are encouraging! I’m glad I have a way of communicating with you, I deleted my myspace page and then regreted it because I couldn’t talk with you! So i’m excited.
the apprentice Said:
on July 19, 2007 at 4:40 am
hugs.