depending on who's side you're on." John Lennon
John Lennon
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| Music can be an harmonious arrangement of musical instruments into a unified composition, or it can lack structure and aesthetic, by my definition. Music is expression through sound. Even Yoko Ono writes music in my book. | |||||||||||
| Now, here's a song from our latest record, or our latest electronic noise, depending on who's side you're on." John Lennon |
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| I explore many forms of artistic expression, but I enjoy writing songs as expressions through sound and have found that the sound I create accompanies a mood that I am trying to express. That is about all the insight I can give you about why I write songs. It's a very Western approach, I guess, trying to encapsulate a mood via music, but I think the music I produce effects people in various ways. I am always amused by the comments I get on my songramp.com pages about "messages" in my songs. I get the technical comments, too, but I'll be the first to admit I am an amateur when it comes to recording because I do this for enjoyment. The thematic comments are more interesting because I love to trace what happens to an artists' art once it becomes public and open to interpretation. At that point, any original intentions of the artist become meaningless, but how the music affects its listeners has infinite and various meanings to them. The only meaning it has to me is the amusement I get from reading all the various interpretations of the music I produce. | |||||||||||
| We were four guys. [...] We were just a band that made it very, very big. That's all." John Lennon |
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| Of course, we found out later just how big Lennon said The Beatles got. One of the reasons that I admire John Lennon is when I think of what a normal human being he was who just happened to have a talent for making musical expression in such a "crafty" way that it didn't just speak to the masses, it resonated through nations. Any type of attention to an artist's music reveals to me that the music is an effective piece. For my own music, I have had interesting reactions to pieces. For example, one person said "Back To You" was about love while another said the same piece was about God. One couple implied that "Ophelia's Song" was "pornography," while all other listeners have described it as "tender," "moving," and "haunting." One person said that "Jesus' Lament" was my trying to pretend I knew what his suffering was about. I still don't understand that comment, but that's the way it affected that listener and that comment spawned over comments about jesus and religion and on and on and on so that it no longer became about the song itself but about an agenda. | |||||||||||
| "Music makes the people come together." Madonna, Music. | |||||||||||
| So, music, therefore, is expression through sound that receives attention when it resonates with its listener. Whether the listener's interpretation favors or disfavors the music is a matter of individual perception, but truly music brings people together to interpret meaning based around one artist's work. Now, that is an awesome power. | |||||||||||