Pearce
Jedi Master
@Musicinventor
Respectfully, to add to what T.C. is saying,
Ultimately if our pursuit is STO, that form should aim to truly move another soul, to speak to them a language that words cannot reach. You writing solely for yourself is the opposite, and it seems like having this music prodigy identity, all you are really doing is scrambling the divine signal, while calling it non-understandable art.
Are you afraid to write for others, to try to truly reach them, because you have been misunderstood and possibly rejected before? If your cancer is lung-related, well the breath is the basis of our ability to communicate with words, so perhaps there is something so painful that you need to communicate, that by not doing so it is killing you.
And perhaps you do understand music theory at a much deeper and intricate level than most people, I'm not attempting to take that away from you. But even Einstein lived and died like the rest of us. A humble approach goes the distance.
I wish you and Mrs. Peel all the best.
Respectfully, to add to what T.C. is saying,
..when describing yourself and your relation to music, you come across as rigid, full of ego, and with this identity built around your ownership to your writing style of music. As a musician myself, music is not something to own, nor do we at this level truly write anything, but are inspired and in effect channel that inspiration into form.Radical left liberals use much the same language when propounding their ideologies.
One of the other teachers at a music academy I taught at was doing his PhD. This was around 2015.
He once sent me his website and I had a look. One of his ‘musical’ pieces was some black and white photographs of him, holding his hand in different ways. These hand positions and the differences between them were somehow supposed to be suggestive of a progression of relationships, and I suppose, in this way, somehow had something to do with music.
As soon as I saw this work of his, I instantly recognised the post-modern, critical, deconstructionist clown show that his university education and the pursuit of his doctorate had brainwashed him into. He went to uni to learn more about music. He came out a mime artist; and that’s an insult to mime artists.
I’d second Approaching Infinity’s advice about looking at this from a Gurdjieffian perspective. What do you think Gurdjieff would make of a western university musical syllabus?
How were you musically as a child before you went into higher musical education?
I think it’s highly probable that the below is a genuine musical performance by Gurdjieff. How much intellectual analysis do you think he intends us to be doing while listening to it?
Ultimately if our pursuit is STO, that form should aim to truly move another soul, to speak to them a language that words cannot reach. You writing solely for yourself is the opposite, and it seems like having this music prodigy identity, all you are really doing is scrambling the divine signal, while calling it non-understandable art.
Are you afraid to write for others, to try to truly reach them, because you have been misunderstood and possibly rejected before? If your cancer is lung-related, well the breath is the basis of our ability to communicate with words, so perhaps there is something so painful that you need to communicate, that by not doing so it is killing you.
And perhaps you do understand music theory at a much deeper and intricate level than most people, I'm not attempting to take that away from you. But even Einstein lived and died like the rest of us. A humble approach goes the distance.
I wish you and Mrs. Peel all the best.