Our bodies are primed for survival, our brains assist our bodies in that task.
We cannot separate our souls from our bodies while we live, but our souls can be spoken to, and speak in a language that only imperfectly can be described by
our spoken language.
Thus our existence has to path, our worldly path and our spiritual path.
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| Our bodies our souls
©Johannes Bjorner
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And where is that new world?
Here, there and everywhere. Some day we will know.
When we hear a piece of music or poetry that reaches our soul, we can describe our feelings with words like, for example "It makes me happy", "It makes me sad", but that only poorly describes the nuances and the breath of what we feel as we are taken through the journey of that melody or poem. It is interesting to note that when a pianist interprets, for example, a composition of Chopin, having all the musical notation available to him or her, the impact on our souls can be very different than when we hear that same composition interpreted by a different pianist. It would have been wonderful if Chopin could have left us a recording of himself playing his compositions.
In a visual piece of art the artist can leave part of his soul for the viewers to experience.
It happened to me many years ago, when I visited the Nolde museum in northern Germany.
Nolde was german expressionist painter who created large oil paintings with often, religious subject matter. One day he received a letter from the german government forbidding to paint anymore, as Hitler disliked his paintings, who did not meet the standards of then German government.
Nolde could not stop painting so he began to paint in watercolor, which could be hidden in a hurry, should the Nazis come on inspection. Nolde called these paintings for Die ungemalte bilder (the unpainted paintings). The subject matter for many of these painting were portraits of people and landscapes done in strong penetrating colors. For some of Noldes works see: http://www.ludorff.com/de/artist/emil_nolde/works
The intensity of these paintings were almost hypnotic. As I was standing looking at the small portraits of people I felt that somebody was standing next to me, but there were nobody. I realized that Noldes spirit was right there. Nolde was dead many years earlier but I felt his presence there in those paintings. I had a similar experience years later looking at some of Van Gogh's latest paintings i in a museum in Holland.
Both Emil Nolde and Van Gogh painted with their souls, pure poetry!
Paintings of Emil Nolde and Van Gogh can be found widely on the web, using Google.
When a beautiful song is merged with beautiful paintings the result can stunning.
I´m refering to the song "Starry starry night" with a nice
Take a look at what happens when great music, lyrics and painting are merged together.
melody:
Quoting some lines from the lyrics by Don McLean:
Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.
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| Starry Night, painting by Van Gogh (from Wikipaintings site) |
"Open your eyes and look at the beautiful world"
Exposing a human being to arts, painting, music, litterature, dance, can sometimes develop the sensitivity and compasion in that persons soul.
Happy music in Madrid with Conchindon
Sometimes we encounter the light when we least expect it. A couple of weeks ago My wife and I spent an overnight in Madrid taking care of some personal business. We had the evening free and decided to go out and get a pizza to take back to our hotel room and enjoy it with a bottle of wine.
As we walked though an old part of Madrid we failed to find a pizza place, but instead found a very cozy restaurant. Outside there was two young people playing, on a rather busy street.
The man was playing the trombon, and the young woman the clarinet, many of the people walking by left some coins. But Brice and yuka were not the average street musicians, in addition to demonstrating great skills, they were playing with such joy that they caught our attention. We could see and hear them from the restaurant were we were sitting. When they took a break we asked them about themselves, Yuka (from Japan) and Brice (from France) are part of a music group called Conchindon and describe their music as Street Punk-Klezmer. (Klezmer is hebraic music from the beginning of the 20th century).
They play in different establishments in Madrid and also on the street sidewalks.
Here are several videos you can listen to by pasting the following URL´s into your browser.
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| Yuka |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggj13drYWs8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNuP2DHOMGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMxEUadPwMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggj13drYWs8
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| Brice |
Clearly they showed great sensitivity in their music.
Yuka sent me the following site on youtube with a very nice melody from a theme by Erik Satie.The video itself has beautiful visuals.
Worth listening to!
Kaori Muraji tocando el tema de Erik Satie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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