Emotional recall
I've been involved in making music and managing music-makers since before I left school. That's five decades and counting.
My fascination with music started when I first heard Echoes by Pink Floyd. I remember the exact moment. I was pacing around the school stage listening to the music reverberating around the empty hall. I was instantly and profoundly moved. It awakened a part of me that resonated with the sounds like the sympathetic strings on a sitar. Someone was making the music I could hear in my head and that changed the course of my life, for ever and for the better.
I woke up a couple of mornings ago, jetlagged and disorientated, with a phrase stuck in my head:
Music is how we store emotion.
I was sure I'd heard this phrase before, but I can't find it on web searches. I believe it's true. Either we attach our own emotions to the music we love (or dislike), or emotions get attached by circumstance and our experiences, or the composers and performers add their own levels of emotional communication to the work. It's what makes music so special. It moves us like no other art form and continues to do so for as long as we are invested in it. For life.
My fascination with music started when I first heard Echoes by Pink Floyd. I remember the exact moment. I was pacing around the school stage listening to the music reverberating around the empty hall. I was instantly and profoundly moved. It awakened a part of me that resonated with the sounds like the sympathetic strings on a sitar. Someone was making the music I could hear in my head and that changed the course of my life, for ever and for the better.
I woke up a couple of mornings ago, jetlagged and disorientated, with a phrase stuck in my head:
Music is how we store emotion.
I was sure I'd heard this phrase before, but I can't find it on web searches. I believe it's true. Either we attach our own emotions to the music we love (or dislike), or emotions get attached by circumstance and our experiences, or the composers and performers add their own levels of emotional communication to the work. It's what makes music so special. It moves us like no other art form and continues to do so for as long as we are invested in it. For life.
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In the Wiki write up on Musicophilia you'll see this: " Neuroscientist Kiminobu Sugaya explains “That means memories associated with music are emotional memories, which never fade out-even in Alzheimer’s patients” - maybe you have read Sugaya?
Greg wrote: "Music is how we store emotion sounds very much like something Oliver Sachs would have said. Interestingly he wrote "Musicophilia" which may well have contained the phrase - have you read the book?..."
No, I haven't read the book (or Sugaya), but I'm familiar with many of the ideas in it because of Nordoff-Robbins and their links to the UK music industry. Perhaps I picked up the phrase through that route. I'll add Musicophilia to my reading list.
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