Spiritual Dimensions of Music

Etu Malku

Etu Malku

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As some of you know, I am very involved in the metaphysical aspects of music and sound. I have been writing a book for a few years on this subject and someday just might finish it . . . LOL!

That said; What are your thoughts on music and sound as it pertains to spirit and the cosmos?
 
Well, I like drumming. Native American, Caribbean, African, Asiatic, and Deadized. A two-step (double step in a Pow Wow) comes easily and it helps when I am on picket ot protest lines. I was one of those few crazy dancers during "Space Music". However, it is Jazz where the beat or beats or rhythm or whatever really move my soul. The Trane Quartet through Miles' death (a kind of "era of fusion", if you will) really got to me. I think it was the polyrhythm (I do not know if that is the right word) of the way tempos were kept and kept changing.
 
Nice . . . those Coltrane albums with Elvin Jones are amazing, Jone's incorporated African polyrhythms into a swing groove . . . A Love Supreme comes to mind
 
I usually like good jazz, except my weekend job is piping in bad jazz with lyrics consisting of cadish pickup lines. You can tell a cad to go buzz off, but you can't turn off piped in musick! Irritating!
 
Everything created by a certain vibratory pattern(s), mastered or influenced by the uttering of its corresponding sound-pattern.


All utterances release a certain energy; good or bad, according to the inner state of the speaker and his use of melody, rhythm and syntax. The average man constantly creates his own limitations of character, ill-health, and his own undesirable conditions, through thoughtless and malicious utterances.


Egyptian priesthood used correct and guarded use of speech at all times. Kind of like the Law of Attraction, only Affirmations were spoken. To this day you will still here some of these in "get well soon" "have a nice day" etc. The speaker is 'telling' you to have a nice day, not asking.
 
seattlegal said:
Question is: Do the lyrics invoke any mindfulness about the music getting the blood flowing hard? Where or how or why to channel or focus that energy? This is where the rubber meets the road, imo.


nice tune :)
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Good questions. I listened and found myself becoming mentally aggressive. Some music does that, while other music has an opposite effect. I think Etu is gonna have a great book if he ever finishes it. It is definitely something I'd be interested in reading. I think music is an expression of self. Some music is beautifully melodic, soothing, and peaceful. Yet, other music is aggressive, hard, and powerfully so. A double edged sword it is indeed, but still universal in effect I think.
 
Etu Malku said:
As some of you know, I am very involved in the metaphysical aspects of music and sound. I have been writing a book for a few years on this subject and someday just might finish it . . . LOL!

That said; What are your thoughts on music and sound as it pertains to spirit and the cosmos?
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Actually, when it comes to spirit and the cosmos, nothing can compare to silence, imo. {Being and wei wu wei.} However, music can be a great communicator. {Doing-wei.}
 
Gatekeeper said:
I listened and found myself becoming mentally aggressive.
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Really? But then I am considered 'abnormal' because I don't 'do anger'. I'd understand more easily if your comment related to the likes of...the Dillinger Escape Plan...

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(there is some respite at about 2 minutes!!!)
 
Snoopy said:
Really? But then I am considered 'abnormal' because I don't 'do anger'. I'd understand more easily if your comment related to the likes of...

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(there is some respite at about 2 minutes!!!)
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Not anger, but aggressive, snoop. There's a difference, bro! :p
 
Snoopy said:
OK! But no relationship?
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In some cases certainly! A person can become aggressive in many ways that have nothing to do with anger, however. When I say aggressive, I mean vigorously energetic.


Seattle asked me about the lyrics and the only lyrics I could actually understand was 100011 - 10101, lol! The music itself provoked a rush of energy I hadn't felt in some time. I enjoyed it! It really got my blood flowing. :D
 
Gatekeeper said:
In some cases certainly! A person can become aggressive in many ways that have nothing to do with anger, however. When I say aggressive, I mean vigorously energetic.


Seattle asked me about the lyrics and the only lyrics I could actually understand was 100011 - 10101, lol! The music itself provoked a rush of energy I hadn't felt in some time. I enjoyed it! It really got my blood flowing. :D
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10001110101 is binary code. Do you get all energetic about this kind of programming/reprogramming? :p Here are the lyrics:

CLUTCH LYRICS - "Robot Hive / Exodus" (2005) album

Not many people can understand binary code--it's meaningless to them. {Kinda like these lyrics! :p } However, our minds will often look for meaning in things, even if only subconsciously, just as we see things in inkblots..... ;)

Are we content to remain mindless to them, like automotons? Do we take the way of the inkblot? How do we stitch together all the "random" pieces of information? (Is RNA random when it is detached from the double helix?) Do we even care? ;)
 
Fallon's lyrics are fantastic word puzzles...

"Burning Beard" by Clutch

Every day I wake up we drink a lot of coffee and watch the CNN
Every day I wake up to a bowl of clover honey and let the locusts fly in
Lobsterbacks attack the town again
Wrap all my things in aluminum
Beams of darkness streak across the sky
Pink rays from the ancient satellite

Every time I look out my window same three dogs looking back at me
Every time I open my windows cranes fly in to terrorize me
The power of the Holy Ghost
The power of the Holy Ghost
Shadow of the New Praetorian
Tipping cows in fields Elysian
Saturnalia for all you have
The seven habits of the highly infected calf

Swan diving off the tongues of crippled giants
International Business Machine
Choking on bits of barley bread crumbs
Oh this burning beard I have come undone
It’s just as I’ve feared. I have, I have come undone

Bugger dumb the last of academe
Occam’s razor makes the cutting clean
Shaven like a banker, lilac vegetal
Break the glass ceiling and golden parachute on down

The power of the Holy Ghost comes to town
Shadow of the New Praetorian
Tipping cows in fields Elysian
Saturnalia for all you have
The seven habits of the highly infected calf
 
namaste all,

for me, music often allows a nonverbal mode of communication with other beings and even within myself. parts of my being are nonverbal and respond to the visual arts or music etc. when i feel angry, per se, listening to aggressive, power chord music doesn't increase the anger but rather seems to allow a channel for it's outlet which is both creative and non-harming (except to my eardrums).

when i'm feeling melancholy then certain music will allow that which i cannot articulate to be expressed.

for me, there is a connection between the lyrics and the musical composition in most of what i listen to there are, of course, musical styles which eschew lyrical content altogether and i enjoy those as well.

on a personal level i find that playing an instrument can help ground me in the present moment as it requires all aspects of my being to be fully engaged in what is going on.

metta,

~v
 
Music helps us express or resonate to what is beyond words.

Music is also a lesson...
A single note played by itself is neither right nor wrong...
Only, in relation to other notes & circumstances (timing, tempo, loudness) does it fit or not.
 
seattlegal said:
10001110101 is binary code. Do you get all energetic about this kind of programming/reprogramming? :p Here are the lyrics:

CLUTCH LYRICS - "Robot Hive / Exodus" (2005) album

Not many people can understand binary code--it's meaningless to them. {Kinda like these lyrics! :p } However, our minds will often look for meaning in things, even if only subconsciously, just as we see things in inkblots..... ;)

Are we content to remain mindless to them, like automotons? Do we take the way of the inkblot? How do we stitch together all the "random" pieces of information? (Is RNA random when it is detached from the double helix?) Do we even care? ;)
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You talking waaaay over my head, seattle! :p I dig good music. The lyrics aren't always something I pay attention to, but the beat, guitar riffs, the overall rhythm of the piece, well .... that's something else. ;)


Roll On Good music - Good lyrics
 
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