Origins of Music

What Has Always Been There

音楽の起源

Music is often spoken of as sound.

But sound is only its surface.

Beneath it live rhythm, memory, emotion, and meaning,

moving together in a single current, unfolding in time.

When we hear music as vibration,invisible waves stir the air.

Our body feels it.

Our mind follows it.

Feeling and imagination begin to join in,

and mind and body start to move as one.

All of this unfolds as a living system inside us.

And when that happens,

the borders we carry between “self” and “world” grow quieter.

For a moment, everything feels like one organism, breathing together.

This is the space in which Origins of Music lives.

Music’s origin is rooted in nature.

It was always there, and it always will be.

We will gently unravel the mystery of music, step by step.

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These reflections grow out of ongoing work at the piano, in teaching, and in performance.