monthly quote

Just passing on some knowledge to my fellow dumbos. (Dont read if your personality is not shtimulating)

" Western classical music has given practically all of its attention to the framework of music, what it calls musical form. It has forgotten to study the laws of Sonal energy...in terms of energy, which is life...Therefore the Oriental musicians often say that our music is a music of holes. Our notes are edges of intervals, of empty abyss. The melodies jump from edge to edge.... It is a music of mummies, of preserved and stuffed animals which look alive enough perhaps, yet are dead and motionless. The inner space is dead and empty. The tone entities are dead, because they are empty of sonal energy, of sonal blood. They are but bones and skin. We call them "pure" tones. They are so pure they will never do any harm!"

- Dane Rudhyar