Day 209 - 6:50pm, 29 July 2019
I listen to part of a John Goldman video in which he talks about sound as the original creative force - "in the beginning was the Word" - and indeed many creation stories from different traditions that suggest that you bring something into being by speaking its name, of creation through sound. And God SAID . . . Even the scientists' BIG BANG has sound in there.
It's not something I've ever thought about. I am not a big music fan, so I guess for me sound generally serves a functional purpose - listening to what others are saying, knowing when traffic is approaching as I cross the road. That sort of thing. I seldom assume it has any particular creative intent behind it, though oration and spoken poetry being obvious exceptions.
Sound is intrinsic to everyday life, something that I am never more acutely aware of than when I have a migraine and every sound, no matter how small, spears me to my core. If sound is all around us, then creation too must be all around us. Every sound has the promise of something more, of new beginnings, of a new world, but only if we have the ears to hear it.
It's not something I've ever thought about. I am not a big music fan, so I guess for me sound generally serves a functional purpose - listening to what others are saying, knowing when traffic is approaching as I cross the road. That sort of thing. I seldom assume it has any particular creative intent behind it, though oration and spoken poetry being obvious exceptions.
Sound is intrinsic to everyday life, something that I am never more acutely aware of than when I have a migraine and every sound, no matter how small, spears me to my core. If sound is all around us, then creation too must be all around us. Every sound has the promise of something more, of new beginnings, of a new world, but only if we have the ears to hear it.
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