We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time: Violinist Natalie Hodges on the Poetic Science of Sound and Feeling
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We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time: Violinist Natalie Hodges on the Poetic Science of Sound and Feeling
Musical tone can boil thoughts away. This is the open secret of making music. Set the string to vibrating again, lock your hearing onto its energy and be absorbed into its disappearance.
W. A. Mathieu • The Listening Book
we’ve seen, illusory or not, it is practically impossible for us to step out of this way of experiencing time. Aside from occasional moments when, for some reason, we find ourselves ‘out of time’ in a positive sense, we are for the most part carried along by this flow, riding in time’s chariot, heading at an equable pace into the future, one tick o
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We spend our lives trying to discern where we end and the rest of the world begins. We snatch our freeze-frame of life from the simultaneity of existence holding on to the illusions of permanence, congruence, and linearity; of static selves and lives that unfold in sensical narratives. All the while, we mistake chance for choice, our labels and mod... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
Do we really need the force of contrast to live intensively? It must be that. For a gentle song would not shake us if we had never heard a loud one. We human beings are only instruments over which the song of the world plays. We do not create ideas; we only carry them.