What are you listening to?

I share, briefly, a fragment of an interview with the Uruguayan musician Gustavo Ripa:

Interviewer: The topic "Transpersonal Music" caught my attention. What does it mean?

Gustavo Ripa: It refers to the dimension of music that transcends personal experience and places it on a spiritual and transcendent plane. That dimension was clearly present in the West in times past, in the Pythagorean concept of "Music of the Spheres" and in many of the great composers, although in a much more diffuse form in the present. In the Middle East and the East - more specifically in Indian Classical Music - the concept of music and its spiritual connection runs through all music, musicians and audiences. In fact, for example, the Ragas are not composed by an "author" but "already exist" and the musicians train all their lives to manifest them on this plane and the audiences to recognize them. Musicians and audiences come together in an event that transcends them. In various cultures music is a connection for the transcendent.

I understand that these are not terms that are commonly used. Our culture is totally focused (with exceptions) on "music/market product", "music/commercial consumption" and the cultivation of "musician/ego", "musician/competitor", no matter what musical genre we are talking about. This materialistic concept cuts across the whole phenomenon surrounding music: industry, media, social networks, schools and universities of learning, audiences and musicians.

Moreover, "Transpersonal Music" is a great book by music therapist Carlos Fregtman together with the great Egberto Gismonti where they explore from Transpersonal Psychology, philosophy and life experiences that aspect of music. I read it 24 years ago.
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Thanks for the music to everyone. I enjoyed some videos. New sounds in my "enjoyable" experience. It's the only thing I understand about music!:violin:



 
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