Comments on: The Flute and Global Fusion http://blogs.fluteportal.com/2009/12/13/the-flute-and-global-fusion/ A resource for Native American and World flutes. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:26:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: joshua geisler http://blogs.fluteportal.com/2009/12/13/the-flute-and-global-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-148 joshua geisler Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:13:01 +0000 http://blogs.fluteportal.com/2009/12/13/the-flute-and-global-fusion/#comment-148 thanks for that, alcvin! hazrat inayat khan's writings are a huge source of inspiration..."the mysicism of music, sound, and word" is a classic. every musician should check him out. the wellspring that gives birth to the river of music is hidden. who can say definitively what It is? we can only observe it by its effects on us, by our perceptions of it, never directly. but i think it's beautiful that it's a mystery! the striving to unfold ever-deeper layers drives us forward as artists. there is a big difference between Mastery of the technical elements of music and an appreciation of the Mystery behind them. the learning process must include both to be effective. thanks for that, alcvin! hazrat inayat khan’s writings are a huge source of inspiration…”the mysicism of music, sound, and word” is a classic. every musician should check him out.

the wellspring that gives birth to the river of music is hidden. who can say definitively what It is? we can only observe it by its effects on us, by our perceptions of it, never directly. but i think it’s beautiful that it’s a mystery! the striving to unfold ever-deeper layers drives us forward as artists.

there is a big difference between Mastery of the technical elements of music and an appreciation of the Mystery behind them. the learning process must include both to be effective.

]]> By: Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos http://blogs.fluteportal.com/2009/12/13/the-flute-and-global-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:49:25 +0000 http://blogs.fluteportal.com/2009/12/13/the-flute-and-global-fusion/#comment-147 Speaking of the root of music, my great great grand teacher, Watazumi Doso Roshi said at a lecture once, "It's fine that we you are all deep into music. But there's something deeper and if you go deeper, and if you go to the source of where the music is being made, you'll find that at the source, everyone's individual music is made. If you ask what the deep place is, it's your own life and it's knowing your own life,that own way that you live." Also found it interesting after reading the sufi master, Hazrat Inayat Khan's "The Music of Life" that the thing he loved most (music) he eventually gave up. He said, "I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive....I composed songs, I sang, I played the vina. Practicing this music, I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the spheres.... I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only Musician existing. Since then I have become His Flute, and when He chooses He plays His Music. People credit me for this music, which in reality is not do to me, but to the Musician who plays on His own instrument." Speaking of the root of music, my great great grand teacher, Watazumi Doso Roshi said at a lecture once, “It’s fine that we you are all deep into music. But there’s something deeper and if you go deeper, and if you go to the source of where the music is being made, you’ll find that at the source, everyone’s individual music is made. If you ask what the deep place is, it’s your own life and it’s knowing your own life,that own way that you live.” Also found it interesting after reading the sufi master, Hazrat Inayat Khan’s “The Music of Life” that the thing he loved most (music) he eventually gave up. He said, “I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive….I composed songs, I sang, I played the vina. Practicing this music, I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the spheres…. I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only Musician existing. Since then I have become His Flute, and when He chooses He plays His Music. People credit me for this music, which in reality is not do to me, but to the Musician who plays on His own instrument.”

]]> By: Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos http://blogs.fluteportal.com/2009/12/13/the-flute-and-global-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:09:38 +0000 http://blogs.fluteportal.com/2009/12/13/the-flute-and-global-fusion/#comment-145 Very eloquently put, Joshua! Thanks for the great insight. Very eloquently put, Joshua! Thanks for the great insight.

]]> By: Ellen_L_Saunders http://blogs.fluteportal.com/2009/12/13/the-flute-and-global-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Ellen_L_Saunders Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:05:41 +0000 http://blogs.fluteportal.com/2009/12/13/the-flute-and-global-fusion/#comment-129 I am just in the process of reading “This is Your Brain on Music: the Science of a Human Obsession”, by Daniel J. Levinton. Jouhsu your description of fusion and the roots of music styles is so well stated. Since I play sever styles I now have some new things to think about when creating. Thanks, I hope you write more on the base of some of the styles you use to fuse your music. I am just in the process of reading “This is Your Brain on Music: the Science of a Human Obsession”, by Daniel J. Levinton. Jouhsu your description of fusion and the roots of music styles is so well stated. Since I play sever styles I now have some new things to think about when creating. Thanks, I hope you write more on the base of some of the styles you use to fuse your music.

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