why our music limits us

i was just listening to some good violin. i’d recommend this track to anyone, its called “First of May”. dunno who played though. nevertheless, it was a great all violin instrumental, with a little bit of  guitar, some piano, and a bit of drums. but i wanted the violin only :S

so i tweaked my equaalizeer, and set it to cut out the bass (base, whatever you pronounce it as). that mostly eliminated the drums. i amped the mid range, and little bit of low to ensure i kept the G-string alive. some more tuning and it was great. i set the volume to a decent high, and whoa

my every nerve resonated to the violin. i could feel, i was being swept away by the highs and low. it made me not want to do anything, and enjoy the “buzz”

then it struck me; and that’s exactly where the problem was.

why does this only happen with “classical” instruments in the “classical” songs? why do i enjoy Neil Young’s “Cortez the Killer” more than Pete’s No. 1′s “Always”?

Mainstream music, perhaps more of the “trend” that’s been evolving for the last five or so years, is heavily focused on one aspect only. It is popularly referred to as “Beat”.

The one thing that makes a song sell now, is that 2 second sound that loops endlessly till the song ends. It is that single 4 note “catchy tune” that takes a song deep into our hearts, and up high in the charts.

It’s a system that is repetitive, and monotonous. It lacks variation. It has no personality. It isn’t a creative form of expression anymore. Only a means of advertisement, and promotion of the latest trends, that they would like us to adopt. It’s a propaganda thing. It’s Entertainment.

our ears are receptive to noises between 20hz and 20khz. that’s what should have been, but thanks to what we listen to, we hardly ever test our limits. thus, we soon lose the ability to clearly distinguish sounds from a plethora of origins, and can’t sense direction soon after. our ability to hear degenerates as our ears don’t need them anymore. we are robbed of our birthright.

the right to use the full extent of our listening skills. with brains as complex as ours, and 90% capacity untapped, the teachers should have never had to say “please speak one at a time”. they could all scream and shout, but our ear would be able to listen to every single one of then voices. at the very least, with two ears, we should be able to listen to two different persons screaming two different things at the same time.

unfortunately, since whatever we listen to only teaches us to pay attention to useless detail, and only of them at a time, our ability to process is reduced to 10%. that is how badly it limits us. it even teaches us to listen to what’s obviously not out in nature, but to something that we rarely encounter out in the open.

classical instruments, however, are like spirits of nature. they are like crystal materialization of resonance. it hits every being of us who also happen to be of nature. it soothes us, helps us attune to nature.

when attuned to nature, we finally start to explore that 90% that remains untapped. because that 90% is the subconscious – something you are not granted access to, till you prove yourself worthy. you have to earn it to deserve it. it is the control panel for your body, the central command. it makes you walk without worrying about all the gritty details; it is that good. you don’t deserve access till you realize it exists. our system is designed as such, that it keeps us from realizing that we can indeed access the subconscious and perhaps extend our limits; and it does a very good job.

lol goodnight!

Advertisement