Monday, June 16, 2014

The Universe Is All About Music

Art is defined as the expression and application of human creative skill, typically in visual form such as a painting or sculpture. We call the a beautiful sights of nature we seldom see  God's work of Art. But we live in a time where art can be anything that makes us smile and gives a warm satisfaction because, at that point we relate to the inanimate object to our ideology of life  and we naturally comprehend this relation. There is a form of art which to my belief we are naturally inclined to for some reason, and also I believe ( without evidence ) would be the first form of art to exist in this universe. This form is called "music".
The dictionary defines music as an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. That’s just bullshit. Music is pleasure and harmony through sound. It is always with us even though we don’t realize it and has helped soothe our minds in times of tension and grievance, has shown certain obligation to be present in times of contentment and ecstasy. Even while we walk down the street we hum a tune or actually put on our earphones and listen to pre-recorded music not only occupy the walk but because by instinct we love music. It is an escape from the monotony of life, the same old boring talks we have we change into rhythms. I am not exclusively talking about music with background beats along with it, I am also including poetry that was there without instruments. A criminal locked in a cell for life would undoubtedly sing a song or quote a poem or even create his own work because he would find natural joy and peace while being deprived from all other social needs.
There is a different and subtle beauty in poetry, much different than that of music. Music can be tuned to sound like a poem but not the other way around. Mainly because I consider poetry to be a rhythm of words and music to be poetry sung shadowing acoustical instruments. But both utter the same emotions. We don’t dance to poetry we dance to music and we listen and learn the deep meaning of life from poetry.  Music can be as simple as tapping your foot whilst humming alongside and can be done by a cat also, and can also be as majestic as Beethoven's symphonies . Poetry on the other hand is written by the greatest thinkers, literary scholars and artist of the respective time. Poetry touches the mind and body a very different way than music. As much as they are art of the same form, they are different.
Now there are 7.3 BILLION people in the world which mean there are 7.3 completely different perceptions and personalities and it would be right to assume all would have a unique taste in music. Old people don’t like what the young generation head bangs to and young people understand to what are the old people smiling to. For me Eminem is the God of music in our time but my mother still considers ABBA to be better. We cant judge a person's taste in music because as humans have evolved so have their creativity and it is the newer generation which is brought up along these new forms of music and hence their brains get accustomed to the new tunes. I say if you know what kind of music someone enjoy you can get a faint idea about their personality. I don’t judge the book by the cover, but knowing their musical interest can tell you if the book is a fable, fiction, work of literature etc.