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    Day 5

    March 26, 2013
     

    Today's exploration is a continuation of yesterday's, with no variation of instruction.


    DEEP LISTENING: Music


    Often, music is listened to as background, while attending to something else. Today though, please find one piece of music at least 3 minutes long, set aside everything, and completely listen. Let the work communicate with you as if you have never heard it before, and may never hear it again. Drop any commentaries and critiques you may have picked up from other places or times. 
     

    Once again, the suggestion is to take three deep breaths, before and after. Share the title of the music here later only if that won't take away from the exploration for you. Otherwise any note is quite enough. :)

     

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    #1
    Szavanna says:
    I started the day with a musical prayer by Youssou Ndour from Senegal. ( http://youtu.be/Pj9xm7O7XDE ). It starts with a guitar solo by Jimi Mbaye - I closed my eyes swaying to the music and felt I was there on stage - holding the guitar and playing with the notes of Birima .... I have seen senegalese musicians live many times - and feel very close to their vibe. mm I will be a musician when I grow up :)
    Posted 09:01, 26 Mar 2013
    #2
    wester says:
    Not sure if using two pieces of music is "allowed". I first listened to one of the pieces mentioned yesterday, thinking that it would be nice to have a piece of music that I had actually never listened to. And then it dawned on me what I really wanted to hear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs . This one really touches me.
    Posted 09:02, 26 Mar 2013
    #3
    Zen says:
    I listened to Andres Segovia's masterly, authoritative recording of the Chaconne (from Bach's 2nd Violin Partita.) I know I am biased but I think the tonal range of the guitar expands the piece. I have always loved this piece from the time I first heard my guitar teacher play snatches of it back in the early eighties. Such a shame I never get to hear much live music these days. Recordings never capture the classical guitar tones fully. edited 13:37, 26 Mar 2013
    Posted 13:36, 26 Mar 2013
    #4
    Bleu says:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFPdBUl7XQ
    Posted 14:17, 26 Mar 2013
    #5
    eliza says:
    :) Two pieces is fine. Listening to the same piece twice is fine. I am so enjoying the way we each make the suggestions our own.

    The work I chose yesterday, Bach's "Air" on a G String, was a predictable 'go to' for me - Bach takes me out of myself. If I am painting walls, my tendency is to reach for something lively - Vivaldi. If I am cleaning I like what I guess one would call "world" music or Indian/yoga. I don't often listen to music during a meditation, outside of Moon's lovely shakahatchi flute at Hikari in the past.

    Today i let the piece choose me, by paying attention to what came up from another angle. What showed up was a bit of a dark song, but quite beautiful... the feeling was of someone searching for engagement but finding zombies or robots, as though they were the last one (or first one?) on earth. There was such humanity in the search or the humanity was the search, and that was the sound of the music... a calling out... maybe like humpback whales. edited 16:10, 26 Mar 2013
    Posted 16:07, 26 Mar 2013
    #6
    Catrinamonblue says:
    Yesterday I let the mouse decide the music but today I searched for something to fit me, who I am right this moment.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wcjBU8zbdY
    The boys of Great Big Sea :)
    "I have a smile on my face and I've got four walls around me"
    Posted 17:39, 26 Mar 2013
    #7
    eos says:
    Today I let happenstance find a song: breath, start, listen, listen, listen, song ends, rest open, end, breath...

    Yesterday I listened to Isabel Bayrakdarian singing "Akh Maral jan" from her "Gomidas Songs" album. You can catch a glimpse of it at http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/gomidas-songs (#12), a slightly scratchy live recording at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jq1071DXhI, and the full $0.99 single at https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewCollaboration?ids=56528522-292141365-218388702.

    And Sunji, I love the "Jodhaa Akbar" movie version ((http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dG2FK3_NfQ) of Khwaja Mere Khwaja - thanks to Adams for the tip in that direction :-).
    Posted 01:07, 27 Mar 2013
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