Confusion Begone.

Last night a BBC4 film about a chap who’s composed an eight hour music performance for an audience on beds. Where rave music’s designed to give an endorphin rush this is designed to loosen one’s hyper mind to the possibilities of, well? I mean this is difficult. Lets say you live a fast, stressed, productive lifestyle with job, childcare, cooking, places to go, mortgage to pay etc. Lets call it the rat race; treading the fine line between living on the streets and mental exhaustion. And someone says, “It can all go away”, and you say, ‘yeh right, talk is cheap’. Then Max Richter’s ‘Sleep’, https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000qzlb/max-richters-sleep somehow makes it a real possibility. All music is composed, or designed to elicit a response. Also music works works at an almost autonomic level as a language of vibration way deeper than our created language of words. Words and their usage come from our conscious mind where vibrations, made and received bodily, bypass it. But music can convey ego from the almost vicious imagination of Stravinsky to the dreams of Debussy. Max, a skilled composer, wanted to conjure an earth like ego that repeats and evolves to some unfathomable plan governed by unfathomable rules, neither random or prescribed. What he’s created is an anathema to our conscious mind, boring, repetitive, tuneless, monotonous. Our conscious almost screams, ‘you’re not playing by my rules!’ But one feels relaxed, understood, connected. It’s bravery of the highest order to insult the listeners consciousness by ignoring it. But, though it won’t rival Beyoncé, it might rank high in the download charts. We don’t want the rat race and all its exhaustion, fear, duplicity and unfairness. This brief sojourn into egocentricity, like all others before it, is coming to an end. Thanks Max and well done.