Thanks a lot, Manisha! Your feedback means a lot!
--- In [email protected], manisha madhavan <manisha_madha...@...>
wrote:
>
> Reading this piece in itself shows the artistic liberty that you are
> describing. Beautifully written iChord, the words you choose in your written
> compositions always are so rich in description and emotion. Its always a
> pleasure reading your posts :)
> MM
>
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>
> ________________________________
> From: ichord <purev...@...>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tue, January 12, 2010 2:24:49 PM
> Subject: [arr] VTV and the Meaning of Artistic Liberty
>
>
> Artistic unconventionality may haave a price in terms of difficult common
> accessability and initial resistance, but the upside is to value a long term
> tradition of artistic liberty, heavily influenced and in some ways born out
> of the Rennaissance period of world history.
>
> What is artistic liberty? It's a type of freedom of expression.. of
> thoughts, ideas, concepts, emotions unbounded by dogma, static rules, and
> artificial boundaries, both within and without the individual expressing such
> a freedom. It's a gift of nature, an affirmation of our humanity, and a
> vehicle of creative expression that serves to communicate the deepest part of
> ourselves and to help interpret our world aesthetically through an unknown,
> undiscovered canvas of free ideas and concepts that are "out there", and yet
> "within us" at the same time.
>
> Music as an artform is a medium of this expression among a spectral array of
> various nonverbal communication forms, yet, to me, embodies a holistic
> attribute more than other art forms that helpes to synthesize the senses and
> the spirit. The power of focused sound, positively intended vibrations on
> the molecular level indeed serve many positive purposes through its
> recreative invention and various sonic avatars. It it we, the receivers,
> interpreters, and listeners, through the magic of our neural makeup, who are
> divinely gifted and bestowed the ability to create, invent, and magnify from
> this aural sea of sound consciousness that embodies our very existence from
> conception to death.
>
> When I listen to a contextually unconventional music album like VTV, the
> concept of artistic liberty superimposed on the idea of musical freedom
> immediately strikes me as a divine gift, that only very few in this world are
> able to communicate so movingly and convincingly. No doubt, Rahman's music
> has always been about unbounded freedom from the confines of sound limitation
> and conventional rules, aided by a myriad of technological tools. It is to
> the fortune of Rahman that he arrived at musical time when his own creative
> intentions met technological upswelling at a very important crossroad in a
> momentous part of musical history. Yes, it was written, and yes, it was
> intended.
>
> I celebrate VTV not only because it pleases me aesthetically and challenges
> my intellect, stimulating both left and right hemispheres into a holistic
> phenomenon, but also for what it represents; another fulcrum of artistic
> liberty and musical freedom from a man, one of the greatest musicians ever,
> whose creative intentions are only pure and loving.
>
> The larger picture, the unbridled privilge of being a witness and recepient
> to this special expression calls out loud and clear to me and I am
> listening... listening. .......listening .........
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