Classical Music for Aficionados

Re recent comments about the minimalist movement (Glass), evolution in music…..and television.

If one gives any credence to the notion that any art form’s relevance can be judged (some would say should be) by how well it portrays the time of its creation, the question of greatness is put in a context where it becomes, if not irrelevant, pointless to compare to geniuses like Mozart and Bach; greatness, the likes of which we will probably never see again. While I’m generally not a fan of this type of relativism, it is certainly true that evolution does not necessarily mean “better”. However, in this context it is also true that it doesn’t necessarily have a to mean “worse”.

Came across this interesting Belgian chamber ensemble that I think is a pretty good example of minimalism meeting today’s genre-crossing and globalist attitude:

https://youtu.be/NSIFpi4fBQc

https://youtu.be/mJzrFbdthyg

«The wise old crocodile said to me just before trying to eat me that his "tastes" need  perhaps to be refined and diversified»-Groucho Marx  🤓

«Are you saying that we all keep an old crocodile in our brain?»- Harpo Marx

I think we live in an era where listening music is no more only a "cultural" activity, but also no more only a religious activity either...

It is more nowadays a conscious spiritual activity ...With all the reproducing technology, music is no more confined to be a social or familial event only....

We are listening nowadays not the sound only, but the effect of the sound traveling through our body to our heart and from our heart to our "seeing"....This fact is reflected in the musicians playings  and the listeners alike...

We listen not the music style so much sometimes than the effect of the music on our own Body/heart/brain...These are 2 different complementary way to listen...

One is a cultural and a nostalgia habit, the other is a search of meaning more than a leisure...

Minimalism, dodecaphonism, gong and hymalayan bowls, or any "new sounds world" attract us now...They are the signs and symptoms of the new "aperspectival integral era" in musical history for the philosopher Jean Gebser...

Music is emotion yes, but also a " new meaning" we can "see" for the first time in history and which can push us toward a new kind of emotion or a new level of emotion...

It is a good thing sometimes to forget our own taste and go at risk....Muting the crocodile so to speak....

At the end music is an initiatic mystery....An introduction to the invisible cosmos seen through the internal eye : the ears...

Personally i discovered music with Bach very young...After that at mid-life with Scriabin and Bruckner and Mahler....They changed my way of "seeing" music...

In the last 20 years i discovered that all written music and unwritten one is played by musicians...

I listen musicians now more than music.... 😊

Then i can listen any genres or styles, because i listen more the musician effect on me than the music he choose to play....

Music is like some plants at the origin of many religious experience a way to open our consciousness...And music is more subtle in his action than LSD or psylocibyn but no less potent on a life long period....

This is the reason why music is also a fundamental social and cultural,spiritual and therapeutical need and a "drug" only music can give for the best or for the worst...


Music is like an economical "spatial ship" to explore the stars or our own metabolism ...Nothing less for me....

Schubert,

You are just a Ray of Sunshine.

Cheers