Music

Afghan Proverb- In music, language has no concept.
Music is a universal language; it gives sound to and evokes our inmost emotions. Music is the art and beauty of sound.
Some people are passionate about music, others are passionate musicians, some enjoy a pleasant sound in the background and a few listen to it, but for no real reason. In a world where mp3’s are the standard, and vinyl is trendy. Music is not only an art or science, but a commodity, an object. It is something to be traded, imported, exported, bought, sold, pirated and produced. This however, strikes me as slightly curious. You cannot hold it, touch it, see it, it only exist in the vibrations of the tiniest particles around us. You can feel it, it can move you, at certain frequencies it can even destroy, but what is it about this simple sound that has made it so valuable? Music is the sound of hearts expressed in as many styles and traditions as there are types of people. Entire groups of people will listen to only one type of music because this is who they are… other people will listen to anything so long as someone else has said it is good music. Still others must only listen to a certain genre because it is the cultured, proper thing to do. I say, Music is music. It is a combination of art, science and soul. Some kinds of music favor one of these three, but music must always have each of these, without it ceases to be music. Music is the beauty of sound and just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, music is in the ear of the listener. Music speaks to the heart, and who is to say what one heart needs to hear or express, is better than another? Saying that one type of sound is or is not music, is “musicism”, just like racism, sexism and any other “ism” you would like to add. Even in the simplest things of life, like music, prejudice seeps in.
I have played music with bums on the streets of Denver, drummers in Africa, rockers in Europe, worshippers in American mega-churches, singers in Asia, and guitarist of Latin America. I can confidently say, Music has no common tongue, it is the language of the heart. This is why it is used in so many different forms of worship in almost every religion. Music is the heavenly tongue. Every single object in the entire universe is moving, when something moves it produces vibration, the basic element of music. The entire universe is making music. This is why music is so powerful, it is one of the basic elements of existence. Only with an entire lack of movement by every atom would there cease to be music. Eternal stillness, some would say hell. Perhaps if every person moved through life looking for the music in it, there would be less prejudice and more music appreciation. Imagine eternity not as an eternal reward, or utopia, or the next life, but stepping into an orchestra formed by the very existence of life. Every perfect sound exist in this place. If you have ever been to a symphony, and arrived early, you may have heard the orchestra tuning. It is a constant fluid sound. This I think will be similar to the experience of eternity, every eternal being tuned to an eternal creator. Existing in a perfect moment, for an eternal time.