SPIRITUAL - Xtreme Music

anThony coleMan
composer and pianist
Music brings us in touch with the most palpable and coherent part of
abstraction. Music has no choice but to be abstract, and therefore,
it brings us in touch with the abstractionist in all of us. Sometimes
people use the word “abstract” as a synonym for willfully obscure.
But music is like our dreams, our pre-verbal imagistic core. Abstract
and real.
To communicate in this pre – or post – verbal fashion, but with
communication as the goal, this is the miracle. How does music do
it? But the fact that it does seems to create an invisible spiritual
bond between performer and listener.
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