I had been thinking seriously about taking to some music or dance form for a while. Recently, it was so much fun to have some of my friends sing some songs(not movie songs) in a friend's baby shower. I toyed with the idea of learning dance but I am not really sure about how consistent I will be in pursuing it. Music.. definitely I can do it since I love listening to music and have always fancied learning some carnatic devotional songs. Golu invitation from a friend reminded me of learning some devotional song in carnatic music. Last year, I was considering singing tirupaavai on every day of the month of Margazhi.. did not get to it but managed to get the Tirupaavai CD sung by Sudha Raghunathan. Once a paati living in our neighborhood told that Singing is the only art form that doesnt need any instrument and you can entertain yourself wherever you are. It can also serve as a great stress reliever. Seeing the amount of satisfaction and happiness, people are getting out of focusing on something other than work, shopping, gymming and sports, I have decided to learn music by Kelvignanam :).
As one saint mentioned, love need no discipline. Heart knows no law. Rules are meant for the head. To sustain love, one needs to inculcate discipline. What I mean by this is, it is going to be easy for me to start on this but I've to have some discipline to become and stay skilled :). Lets see how it goes.
Have you heard this song "Kurai ondrum illai marai moorthy kanna" sung by MS Subbulakshmi?. Oh my God... it is so beautiful especially you can really sense her feelings listening to her songs. For me, a beautiful song is a well sung song in which you can very acutely feel the mood and understand what the character is going through when you hear the song. Do you know whats the term for this aspect of music ?. Thats what I love about SPB. He's a topic for another day :).
2 comments:
Agree !
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html
relevant excerpt from the above paper:
Most adults have some childlike fascination for making and arranging larger structures out of smaller ones. One kind of musical understanding involves building large mental structures out of smaller, musical parts. Perhaps the drive to build those mental music structures is the same one that makes us try to understand the world. (Or perhaps that drive is just an accidental mutant variant of it; evolution often copies needless extra stuff, and minds so new as ours must contain a lot of that.)
Sometimes, though, we use music as a trick to misdirect our understanding of the world. When thoughts are painful we have no way to make them stop. We can attempt to turn our minds to other matters, but doing this (some claim) just submerges the bad thoughts. Perhaps the music that some call 'background' music can tranquilize by turning under-thoughts from bad to neutral, leaving the surface thoughts free of affect by diverting the unconscious. The structures we assemble in that detached kind of listening might be wholly solipsistic webs of meaninglike cross-references that nowhere touch "reality." In such a self-constructed world, we would need no truth or falsehood, good or evil, pain or joy. Music, in this unpleasant view, would serve as a fine escape from tiresome thoughts
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