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And that's the difference between music and stories, a musical piece (or a painting )can be just beautiful, it doesn't NEED a story. It can be just what it is, without name, myth or model. Every listener can, id the want to attach a story to it, but the piece is not a story. It doesn't need a meaning or contain a message, it just IS. My objection is that by calling musical pieces stories we reduce the content of the music. I think that music is more basic than words, a story can describe a piece of music it can't BE the music. Turning a story into music is the other way around, we go behind the words and try to capture the feelings the words describe. Along with Wittgenstein i believe that we are trapped in language, music is one way to escape. At least for a while. When i play a seldom THINK (in words,) i just DO. Maybe some abstract art is out chance to be a chimpanzee :-) Anders > Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 23:56:29 +0100 > Subject: Re: Stories > From: perboysen@gmail.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:14 PM, samba - <sambacomet@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Seems to me humans have some mysterious(fear of empty space/ambiguity?) need > > to understand the world and their experiences,and therefor come up with > > stories,mythologies, models (scientific ,philosophic etc.), art, > > cosmologies,, etc. > > Yes, that's the typical human way - always telling others about > yourself and your latest experiences. A chimpanzee can learn as many > words as a three year old child but there is a huge difference: when > you meet a child it will never stop telling you stories about whatever > have happened lately. The chimpanzee never tell you a shit, whatever > it has been through. > > Per > |