if you have a reference frequency and rhythm musical knowledge sets in easily. So also while communicating to some one if we are aware of the reference state, then our voice, speech comes out musically with order, that too if the reference state is nothing, love, light whatever by name . the state we get after reading JK. If it has got also a rhythm an ordered phase of time then it becomes much more profound. Then is reality is only those two aspects... an enlightened holistic awareness in silence and rhythm or they are both combined...
gb

We are watching, not waiting, not expecting anything to happen but watching without end. JK

This post was last updated by ganesan balachandran Tue, 03 Nov 2009.

After all, music is the silence between two notes. If it were a continuous sound, there would be no music. It is the silence between two notes that gives emphasis, beauty to the notes. Similarly, it is silence between words, between thoughts, that gives significance, meaning to the thought.

When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved.

If that silence also is periodical with regular intervals is what my question and that silence is the reference state.

gb

We are watching, not waiting, not expecting anything to happen but watching without end. JK

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In Indian system of music a single note and its aesthetic aspects are more important and where as in western music it is the group of notes.In classical Indian music there is no harmony at all. i find so also in the indian culture compared to western culture there is no team work.The language also which they speak follow Dorian mode. a diminished pattern. is the system of music shapes the culture of that place?
gb

We are watching, not waiting, not expecting anything to happen but watching without end. JK

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I really enjoyed this post, and although I am not qualified to make a particularly valid response, I can say with some timid certainty that I have had a glimpse of silence as music; not as a component, but, as ganesan balachandran has said, as music itself. Being a lowly music student, I feel that I will never learn all there is to know of music, and that is a great thought!

Once I was watching some film or another, very sparse and meditative, when the beginnings of Arvo Part's famous piece 'Spiegel im Spiegel' began to play, and immediately I was captivated by the silence in it, how it seemed to envelope every note, as though sound and lack of sound were interacting, or were in fact the same thing, a part of each other. I felt suddenly aware of something about music that I had not previously noticed.

Something else that has interested me is the way the human responds to music. Occasionally it can be an emotional response, anchored in old associations; that is not what intrigues me, but rather those times when you hear a piece of music and it is like a shock to the system, beautiful but quite nameless and unemotional, the same feeling one might get from reading a poem or looking at a mountain, as if suddenly brought to the moment for one fleeting second, suddenly "in harmony".

You have brought music to this forum. welcome. I just thought of winding up the topic, your participation is most welcome.
gb

We are watching, not waiting, not expecting anything to happen but watching without end. JK

ganesan balachandran wrote:
After all, music is the silence between two notes. If it were a continuous sound, there would be no music. It is the silence between two notes that gives emphasis, beauty to the notes. Similarly, it is silence between words, between thoughts, that gives significance, meaning to the thought.
When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved.

The above is JK"s quote. Stll if you feel anything to say I will feel very happy.
gb

We are watching, not waiting, not expecting anything to happen but watching without end. JK

Science say that there was a big bang before all this started and we are in an expanding universe. The sound of the Big bang explosion is still being percieved even after billions of years and the frequency is A#. There is a penatonic Scale in Indian music whose notes are CC#FGA#C and reverse.This appears to be a scale based on A# minor.
Leave the technicalities, many good sayings derived from the unknown including JK can be composed as good songs. That way i would like to try the POEMS of JK which are available in poems and parables from JK.

gb

We are watching, not waiting, not expecting anything to happen but watching without end. JK

This post was last updated by ganesan balachandran Tue, 08 Dec 2009.