• Inner Octaves My Love

    by Commagene12 on July 31, 2010
    I don't always claim what I am hearing is actually what the singer intended to be saying. But my aim is to find only *that* based on the most accurate deduction from their enunciations. Maybe it is just something Higher out there I am hearing through the modicum of their lyrics. Or, maybe there is something Higher at work in them they are not aware of that speaks to us through secondary, more panoramic, meaning within their inflections (what Cultural World Tradition *doesn't* teach this goes on in man's psyche, and even someone like Dave Grohl, for example, said Cobain was definitely channeling some kind of god or Spirit). It could be they just feel so many things when they are singing that their words form in ways that sound like many different words that all capture different aspects of that range of bursting emotion they are feeling. Or could it be there is something Higher in me that speaks to me when I am struck with these things? Probably it is all three including the singer intentionally meaning such things to a degree most would be suprised unless they had studied the metaphysical movement so deep at work in the music world today (Lachman's books aren't bad but it is such an open field still to be comprehended). Anyways, I always think about what a Mystic Occultist (Mr. G.) said when asked if the kind of music that broke down the walls of Jericho will ever be able to be recovered, the kind that can objectively create whatever emotions one wishes in others once you know how to do it and that it is claimed the Essenes still had knowledge of whom he had met in the late 1800's. He said, people will remember certain patterns but they have forgotten how to perform the inner octaves (this seems to be the secret Thom Yorke said he discovered about Jeff Buckley's singing that he said helped him so much with his own. See Jeff Buckley learned his singing from Eastern Mystics whom he said in an interview could just sit down without any other instruments and totally entrance you because of all the small micro-notes they could go into with just their voice's wavering). There seem to bee inner octaves in both music and lyrical meanings that are the most important aspect about them. As the Ancients of so many cultures have said, Mythical Reality, however one reaches it, is more important then secondary, everyday consensual reality one is filled to the brim with down here. It is this that I am always trying to reach in my interpretations of Songs with my interpretations 'acurracy as to what the singer actually intended to speak' being also extremely essential but secondary. I am more interested in what feelings are being conveyed knowingly or not. I am looking for the highest level, not the most basic and formatory. Singing is a weird thing if one has ever tried it, it is a connecting medium to both being levels in oneself and out in the uni-verse in my estimation.
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