I am not a spiritual man.
There does exist something seemingly mystifying about the emotional power of sound though...to me at least. There's a primordial urge to create, manipulate, and sponge in all the sound I can. I believe this urge exists a bit in all of us. Is it not rejuvenating listening to your favorite tune for the 300th time after years and years of memorizing the sound and lyrics of the song?
For me, this urge begins with one of my earliest and fondest memories as a child.
I remember being about 7 years old or so and riding in my parent's car with my cousin and my father, going on a trip up north when this song started playing on a mix CD we had had playing.
I can recall songs I enjoyed before I heard this song. Quite a lot I would hear on the radio and on CDs and tapes my parents listened to, and I enjoyed them...but they didn't have this kind of effect on me. What I fondly remember about this memory is how this song made me...feel. I remember thinking to myself, "how does a song make me feel?"
Still this was not enough for me to want to become any kind of music connoisseur, or any kind of rock star or even a musician. I had been nearly forced by my mother to take piano lessens from the time I was 7 and I found them as interesting as any typical school subject (ugh. Math. Kill me now). I took band and played the Trumpet in 6th grade if only because I didn't want to be picked on by the cool kids who took the gym classes. It wouldn't be until a very good friend of mine got me into a band that made me rethink and help discover who I am.
It was a very personal moment. I wanted to know everything about being in a band...about playing instruments...about all the genres and lives that have been melded by the art. As the years went on I tackled more instruments, I became heavily involved in all my school's different band programs and strived to be the best musician I could be. This feeling I have has taken many half hearted people down a road that can potentially ruin their young life, as Noel Gallagher from Oasis said, "Please don't put your life in the hands of a Rock n' Roll band, you'll throw it all away." Still, to this day I invest more time than I know I should into recording, practicing, jamming, and singing. This is what I feel I feel like I need to be involved with in my life. Like I said above, it's a primal feeling, a hunger like craving to make this kind of art with my life.
Music embodies the symbolic soul every living person has. The waves that accurately capture the emotion of the human condition. These are the waves that sailors chase at sea when looking for adventure, the waves that are captured from radioactive pulses trillions of miles away by astro physicists. This feeling I personally have for it stems from anyone's passion for anything, and I'm glad that mine happens to be getting involved with the world of music.
I suppose I'm making this blog to share what music has done for me, my opinions on the industry, the art, the culture, and whatever else music related comes to mind. I'd love feedback, comments, ideas! Leave me an email to the right or send me tweets and facebook comments with the links below.
- Miles Taylor Winchester, The Citrus Sawtooth
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