Some of It's Parts

["Robert Eberwein" <robert_eberwein@hotmail.com>]

<<-Music itself is just vibrations of the atoms in the air...

No. There are lots of vibrations- not all are music.

<<-our perception of sound is hopelessly coloured

Hopelessly? Interesting choice of words...

<<-The beginning of the "questioning of oneself" is the beginning of 
making 
sure we have it <<together.

Uh- - -  Okay.

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In our quest to appear that we *have it together* it can seem tempting to 
abandon both logic and our instincts. We’ve been hearing this kind of 
stuff 
for so long: Enlightentment/Existential patter that wants us to believe 
that 
we are even LESS than the sum of our parts.

But us country peasants are no longer as quick to believe whatever 
rhetoric 
the guerrillas in the hills are pushing [be it coke or work boycotts]. 
Folks 
are much less likely to attend art openings where there is only red 
dripped 
on Plexiglas. People  almost definitely won’t pay 40 bucks to watch some 
fool sit silently at a piano. And most know that there is a jewel in the 
heart of the lotus. More and more will understand the sweet 
chicken&eggness 
of math and music. Space and time. Existence and consciousness. Instinct 
and 
purpose.

Whether you gather roots for breakfast, or live on the 14th floor; we're 
one 
people, in the same gravity. Most of that old talk of class, race, culture 
was a ruse to manipulate us, and make us not question the credentials of 
the 
speakers. Those speakers will also tell you why music no longer needs 
harmony, rules of composition or rhythm. In fact, they’ll try to make you 
feel small if you don’t agree. That's why I like looping: You can't fool 
people who have had a hand in creation. They know the difference between 
noise and - - - uh, Something Musical. They know that banging someone with 
a 
pipe doesn’t become music until you add good intention.
Robb

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