Friday, September 4, 2009

Deafness gone

After recently being told that my writing ability is not, in any way whatsoever, connected to my state of intoxication, I tried my hand at writing without the high. Personally, I still believe that they're connected.

Music isn’t actually just what we think it is. It’s difficult to gauge the depths of music with a normal mind, and personally I admit that I cannot do it unless intoxicated! When one’s high, Music really starts stripping down to what it is. She reveals her hidden nuances, her secretly guarded details of beauty. It is at that state that one realizes why Pritam could never ever become A. R. Rahman, and why Matchbox20 can never ever become Deep Purple. As far as I can recall, it’s the Bass notes that begin to matter most at the beginning. This is where most of the rubbish fall out, the ones with almost no bass frequency and shrieking treble sound. The subtle, powerful and everlasting bass notes welcome you to this new better way of perceiving sound. They flow deep within this stream of sound, but are ever so luminously prominent. Sometimes fading away, then returning with new purpose. The higher frequencies do their best to attract your attention, and you finally turn, satisfied, to their performance. With gritted-teeth and wild ferocity you emit every note out of your face, as it fades away. The music of the beats now snatches you into the regions where music controls your body. You shake your head, making your torso float and sway. Your legs join in a little later, one at a time, right first and then left. You feel the beauty of being able to move your two feet with two separate minds.

The dance is over. Techno music announces it entry with flat, overtone-less notes of medium frequency. They proceed in drawing a techno-ruled background for you to observe. Some weak yet strengthening bass notes keep you just on track. The medium frequencies now rule the sea. They blare out, not too rash, in a simple repetitive melody.


That's about as much as I could write in the limited time I had, but I think I shall resume this topic at a later, more comfortable time.

3 comments:

rorschach said...

shona, i don't know much about life. but i know this. certain intoxicants heighten your sensibilities momentarily, and hence music seems .. finer. do not use the same to judge music.

getting high shouldn't be a means to an end, it rather is an end in itself. just like music. both simple, pure and free.

also see if you can find a live compilation called Live in Japan '74 by BeckBogartAppice (BBA). wait for the number Lady. listen to the bass. i hope you like. i do. :)

cheers.

Anurag said...

you know what, it looks like you were high when you wrote this. and you've GOT to listen to "a day in the life". beatle fucking genius.

Unknown said...

i wonder what you'd say about psychedelic/goa trance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4ciBhJU3bs