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music as an art form is essentially 00:00:00
music as an art form is essentially playful we say you play the piano you 00:00:03
don't work the piano 00:00:05
why music differs from say travel when you 00:00:11
travel you are trying to get somewhere 00:00:17
and of course we because being a very 00:00:21
compulsive and purposive culture are 00:00:23
busy getting everywhere faster and 00:00:25
faster and faster till we eliminate the 00:00:27
distance between places I mean with the 00:00:32
modern jet travel you can arrive almost 00:00:35
instantaneously what happens as a result 00:00:37
of that is that the two ends of your 00:00:40
journey become the same place so you 00:00:45
eliminate the distance and you eliminate 00:00:48
the journey because the fun of the 00:00:50
journey is to travel not to obliterate 00:00:53
travel so then in music though one 00:01:03
doesn't make the end of a composition 00:01:06
the point of the competent of the 00:01:09
composition if that was so the best 00:01:11
conductors would be those who played 00:01:13
fastest and there will be composers who 00:01:18
wrote only finales people go to concerts 00:01:23
just here one crashing chord because 00:01:25
that's the end say we're dancing you 00:01:30
don't aim at a particular spot in the 00:01:31
room that's where you should arrive the 00:01:34
whole point of the dancing is the 00:01:35
parents look at the people who live to 00:01:40
retire and put those savings away and 00:01:43
then when they 65 they don't have any 00:01:47
energy left they're more or less 00:01:48
impotent and they go and rot in an old 00:01:52
people's senior citizens community 00:01:52
because we've simply cheated ourselves the whole way down the line we thought 00:01:59
of life by analogy with a journey with a 00:02:06
pilgrimage which had a serious purpose 00:02:09
at the end and the thing was to get to 00:02:10
that 00:02:11
success or whatever it is or maybe 00:02:13
heaven after you're dead but we missed 00:02:18
the point the whole way along it was a 00:02:20
musical thing and you were supposed to 00:02:22
sing or to dance while the music was 00:02:24
being played but you had to do that 00:02:30
thing you didn't let it happen and so 00:02:38
for this in this way the human being 00:02:41
sometimes becomes an organism for self 00:02:46
frustration let's take Kurbsky called 00:02:50
man a time binder that means that he's 00:02:56
the animal peculiarly aware of the time 00:03:00
sequence and as a result of this is able 00:03:03
to do some very remarkable things he can 00:03:05
predict he studies what's happened in 00:03:09
the past and he says the chances are so 00:03:12
and so of that happening again so he 00:03:14
predicts thoughts is very useful to be 00:03:17
able to predict because that has 00:03:19
survival value but at the same time it 00:03:23
creates anxiety you pay for this 00:03:27
increased survival ability involved in 00:03:30
prediction by knowing that in the end 00:03:32
you won't succeed they're all going to 00:03:34
fall apart by one way or another it 00:03:37
might happen tomorrow might happen fifty 00:03:40
years from now but it all comes apart in 00:03:43
the end and then people get worried 00:03:45
about that they get anxious so what they 00:03:48
gain on the roundabouts they lost on the 00:03:50
swings 00:03:50
so then if you see on the other hand that existence this is as I said my 00:04:01
basic metaphysical assumption which I 00:04:06
won't conceal from you that existence is 00:04:08
musical in nature that is to say that it 00:04:12
is not serious it is the play of all 00:04:15
kinds of patterns we can look upon 00:04:20
different creatures as we look at 00:04:22
different games as we look at chess 00:04:24
checkers backgammon tennis was the tree 00:04:27
game the beetle game a grass game or you 00:04:30
can look at them as you look at 00:04:31
different styles of music mazurkas 00:04:33
walters sonata etc etc all down the line 00:04:37
there are all these different things 00:04:39
doing their stuff and we are doing that 00:04:41
now existence you see is something that 00:04:48
is spontaneous the Chinese word for 00:04:51
nature 00:04:52
Zidane means that which happens of 00:04:57
itself your hair grows by itself your 00:05:01
heart beats by itself you breathe pretty 00:05:03
much by itself your glands secrete their 00:05:06
essences by themselves you don't have 00:05:10
voluntary control over these things so 00:05:13
we say it happens spontaneously so when 00:05:17
you go to sleep and you try to go to 00:05:18
sleep you interfere with the spontaneous 00:05:20
process of going to sleep try to breathe 00:05:23
you know real hard and you find you get 00:05:26
balled up in your breathing so if you 00:05:33
you go to be human you just have to 00:05:36
trust yourself to have bowel movements 00:05:38
and go to sleep and digest your food of 00:05:41
course if something goes seriously wrong 00:05:43
and you need a search and that's another 00:05:45
matter 00:05:45
but by and large the healthy human being 00:05:49
doesn't right from the start of life 00:05:51
need surgical interference and he lets 00:05:56
it happen by him by itself so we'll say 00:05:59
with the whole picture that is 00:06:00
fundamental to it you've got to let go 00:06:03
and let it happen 00:06:06
because if you don't you're going to be 00:06:09
all clutched up you're going to be 00:06:11
constantly trying to do what can happen 00:06:18
healthily only if you don't try 00:06:18