Music that has a hold of me beyond understanding


I just took a musical bath. I listened, for the umpteenth time, to Puccini's La Boheme. I can't begin to understand how someone could ever create such a thing of beauty. There are many 'songs' that compete in their individual beauty, but no other opera, play, or body of singing that even comes close, for me. You?

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Thinking is going out of the filters of our mind...

It is the basis of language , imagination....

Ironically, in the West, "to be "out of one’s mind" is regarded as a tragedy.

 

 

Someone already said it though I can't remember who: To completely understand something would be to unravel and lessen the beauty of it. Something like that anyway

Any understanding begin and end with ectasy....

For William Blake, the unknown genius because he was too deep for the average reader or listener , any perception is an ectasy precisely for this reason... Perceiving is already an understanding and no understanding exist which is not a perception ... As for Leonardo Da Vinci or Goethe or Archimedes methods, which three methods in different fields are all related with one another by the creative perceptive imagination way ...I could have put Aristotle with them or Faraday seeing of the electrical and magnetical field before his  mathematization by Maxwell ...

The rest out of this perceptive ectasy is a sleeping mechanism habit or industry ( not craftmanship nor art ) ...

Then your observation is very true...

 

I can prove it with a simple example...

This is an article about the stability and time enduring stability of bike throwed on a road and the geometrical figure representation of their trajectories , which by the way reproduce an image related to the prime numbers distribution ...

Then understanding that relation and why this is so is opening a door toward ectasy...

 

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.88.3781&rep=rep1&type=pdf

https://twitter.com/anirbanbandyo/status/1700663719930544420

 

Small room acoustic experiments were also an ectasy for me...Not only music listening...

As was an ectasy the only book i read really describing what is mammals forms...Here you read it and realize that you had never really seen a dog or a cat in all your life , you had merely only recognize them as a robot do...

https://www.amazon.ca/Understanding-Mammals-Threefoldness-and-Diversity/dp/0932776639

It is IMPOSSIBLE to study grammar without stumbling into an ectasy...Try Gustave Guillaume books...One of the most enduring ectasy of my life...

Someone who listen the art of the fugue of Bach without going into ectasy had not listen to it really yet...It is why i own 15 versions perhaps... 😊

Ectasy is related to real perception not to "tastes" or "habits"...

Etc...

Someone already said it though I can’t remember who: To completely understand something would be to unravel and lessen the beauty of it. Something like that anyway

Often Bill Frisell transports me away. 

Bits of Erik Satie can do it. 

Art Prpper.