“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Music of life - life of music
We create music and music creates us. It is a rondo.
If we can imagine health as a state of quantum coherence reflected in the complex dynamics of body rhythms such as the heartbeat, the respiratory rate, and brain waves, then we may contemplate about -What is the music of our organism that plays (and dances) life into being – from the top of our head to our fingertips and toes – every single cell that spins from picoseconds to minutes, hours, days and years?
Each and every player, including the tiniest molecule, is improvising freely and spontaneously, yet keeping in tune and in rhythm with the whole. And yet, there is no “visible” conductor, no choreographer, the organism is creating and recreating itself afresh with each passing moment. What a majestic counterpoint example of maximum local freedom and maximum coordination as a whole.
Tuning – to bring someone or something into harmony
Music attunement can be reached by listening to an instrument, another person's voice, performing and composing-improvising – playing an instrument, using our own voice; singing, chanting, toning (practice of using the voice to express elongated vowel sounds), and laughing.
Music attunement is reached through fundamental principles of resonance, entrainment, harmonics, musical intervals, color, rhythm and intention.
Our mind can only perceive things within the restricted limits of its sensory capacities, which are only very small ranges within the total vibratory reality.
We live within a perceived reality, but our energy system interacts with the totality of absolute reality. Not only are we limited by what we are able to perceive, but we are also limited by how we give meaning to what we perceive.
imagination, canon and renaissance
EuMuse is on a mission to teach how to integrate conscious (GoML) - goal oriented music listening - in everyday life; How to creatively alter your sonic environment; How to integrate conscious music listening in businesses, wellness clinics, senior citizens’ centers, hospitals, kindergartens, schools and homes.
Why? In a world that is continually changing, the moment one stops learning is the moment one stops growing. It is a risky path. The consequences don't occur immediately, but they do start accumulating.
If we acknowledge that knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases - then perhaps scientists without a Ph.D. or a Y chromosome or academic affiliation may become the most powerful voices of a new renaissance. Thus, we can recognize that truly beautiful discoveries represent imagination in art and science as a sentient, numinous gift of humanness.
But imagination, an innate human capacity, needs proper nurture and cultivation. Imagination, wonder, and curiosity are nurtured by music, by stories, by poems – in brief, by exposure to the beautiful in any form. Moral imagination then is a human power to respect men and women as moral beings, i.e., as persons, not things whose value to us is measured by their usefulness.
In September of 2022, I initiated a series of monthly missives that presented a prelude to some parts of EuMuse work. Today, I am going to argue that the world needs music (Beauty), and that writing must not be an end in itself but rather an opening to further thinking and acting. If we could sufficiently cooperate, what might we cooperate to build?
“When desires and passions do not turn into wrongful paths, music can be perfected. Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos. Therefore, one can speak about music only with a man who has perceived the meaning of the cosmos.” Herman Hesse
Marina de Moses