27/09/2026
Noise
In my experience noise is any sound i want to exclude from my awareness.
Like walking on gravel with bare feet.
Sound is any sound i hear, but do not pay attention to.
Like walking bare feet on the firm sand between the sea and beach.
Music is any sound i experience as a coherent whole.
Like standing on grass, enjoying and connecting to the feeling of it.
But there is something interesting in music, apart from the music its self, the piece, composer or improvising musicians.
All music is an assembly of sounds that do not fit together.
A banjo, a drum, a violin and washboard.
If you would try to design a thing that makes a sound that will surely irritate your mother, most instruments would immediately qualify fully.
Imagine you put together a bunch of instruments, that, as loudly as they can, start to tune and add to that the exercises of vocal soloists.
Like at the beginning of a classical concert, only last minute fine tuning.
Its compares like a mild summer breeze to a tempest in oktober.
Still, when the tuning is done, and the intention of the player goes from tuning the instrument to making music everything changes.
Every instrument finds its right moment to resound and fade, as it understands its self and is understood in its quality, volume and duration.
Then a washboard, violin, djembe and shakuhachi can become a (sound) form containing utter beauty.
In talks i had with some people who tend to be cynical and remorseful about humanity, considering the erosion of freedom of speech/choice, the lust for war, the economic desert of more of the same or the into absurdity regulated products, i often pointed at music.
Everybody likes music, whether in sound, taste, colors or touch, smells , movement or architecture.
That shows the most fundamental inclination of our shared humanity.
The beauty ensuing out of freely pairing seeming opposites, antagonists, enemys.
Peace therefor is not in the vanquishing of the antagonist but in the resolution to find the musical moment in which all is appreciated for its contributing quality.
As long as there is music there is evolution and growth of the promise we are to our self and those around us.
-Tang Li
