Sunday, November 16, 2008

Feeling the vibrations

Someone once told me that in our smallest particles we are made up of energy. Everything we are, everything we do, is a vibration of particles of energy inside and outside of us, whether we are doing back flips or if we are stuck on our back. I think this explains to some degree why we resonate, like guitar strings when things seem to be true. According to Webster something is true if it is “consistent with fact or reality; not false.” We can feel truth because it is part of us, it is something we have known, we do know and we will know.

I think this carries into music, not necessarily the truthfulness part of it, but the way that we can relate to music can be much more than on a “like” or “dislike” basis. In fact, we can listen to something until it begins to cause our whole bodies to vibrate, until we not only grow accustom to listening to it, but until it becomes part of our beings. Is it possible that we can listen to music, to sounds and vibrations until they have changed the way we resonate and the basic structure of our beings?

I know that simplifies things on a grand scale, but sometimes when I listen to someone singing, not just through speakers, but when I hear the vibrations through the air straight from their vocal chords I can feel it. I can feel it seeping into my arms, legs, filling me up until it begins to leak out of me. Often times I can feel it even in the hairs of my arms.

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