Re: improving/the sky is crying

[Christian N Michalek <micha018@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> in terms of the conclusion.  While likening music to a language and 
> urging others to hear their inner voice in seeking the expression of the 
> language is certainly a worthy goal the only way to acquire the language 
> is by listening to others.  No child is born speaking any language, yet 
> by the time most of us are little more than 2 we utter words and
> sometimes sentences.  We've built a context by listening to others speak 

Your comparisons to music and language are a bit ethnocentric.  When I 
speak of language I speak of it as a whole. There are many different 
languages but all are a form of communication.  If you isolate one person 
or two people together he/she/they will eventually form their own 
language.  It may not intelligible but it will be some sort of language,  
some sort of communication.  All languages have a universal quality to 
them, the emotions.  Music has this too.  Now if we go back to our 
isolated child and strike it on it's head, it will undoubtedly cry.  
Crying is not an emotion, it is a manner of speech.  Everyone understands 
what crying is, just like most people will understand music.  It conveys 
a sense of emotion, and we generally understand it.


> the language.  The same can hold true for music.  The broader the context 
> of our experiences the more able we may be to communicate the music in 
> our hearts and minds. 

> music and grasp the subtleties of the messages he tries to communicate 
> how can our musical repitoire not grow by the experience.  Like a 3 year 

Don't think of this as growing, but instead taking a different path.  If 
we have a ball and roll it on a smooth surface, one could expect it to 
roll in a straight line to get to the other side. But if this surface has 
slight imperfections, then we should be able to assume the ball will roll 
slightly off course, but nevertheless make it to the other side; should 
that be our goal.  I am not saying Big Walter is imperfect,  I am saying 
he is an imperfection in our smooth surface, listening to big Walter or 
anybody else will still get us to the other side but our original course 
is slightly altered.

> that came before you.  It'd be like speaking english with no dictionary 
> or people around you to listen to. 

We are not speaking english or anything else.  Again, like crying, music 
is primitive.  We need no dictionary to speak it.  It is universal.
> You'd be robbed of all that synergy and leaps of understanding.  fjm
> 
We are robbed of nothing.  Instead we create all that synergy and leaps 
of understanding...

There are really no rules to music, only parimeters for certain 
dialects.  Don't ever let anyone tell you how or what to play(unless 
you're being paid)  Music should be as personal as religion. Believe what 
you will, but do believe.

Chris Michalek