| Until
now, I have repeatedly referred to the natural laws of harmony in the
microcosm of music, the compositional application of which leads to
naturally structured music. Today, the concept of naturalness in music
is subject to many misunderstandings, and I would like to go into this
in more detail for this reason – and because this will form a better
basis for the understanding of Medical Resonance Therapy Music.
Throughout all time, great scholars in the well-known high civilisations
of the world have demanded that music reflect nature’s laws of
harmony and educate mankind in naturalness.
During the every-day life of such high civilisations music strove towards
complete natural harmony with the twittering of the birds, with the
whispering of the waves, with the rustle of the leaves in the wind,
with the course of the stars and with the development of the people
– from earliest youth up to old age.
As man has become estranged from nature, so has his music become unnatural
– indeed, mankind’s great thinkers claim that the loss of
natural harmony in music is the cause of man’s estrangement from
nature.
If in our present time of ecological crises, the natural knowledge about
the harmony of life is obscured from man’s view, it should come
as no surprise that the contemporary music industry is also predominantly
striving towards the excitement of mental tension, superficial sensations
and bodily feelings – whether it be avant-garde within the framework
of intellectual composition techniques, or in the beat and pop scene,
where the unfortunate children – in this, our age of ecological
world destruction – are crying after the lost natural harmony of
life and of music.
We must devote our undivided attention to this future generation’s
desperate cry for natural harmony. |
| We
must concern ourselves intensively with the internal connections between
nature and music – we should listen into the hidden world of sound
of the natural microcosm of music and look there for the natural laws
of harmony, with the help of which today’s music could be freed
from its synthetic rhythmic fixation and its dissonance.
It is very well-known that, apart from the denial of food or of love,
nothing affects our emotional life as powerfully as music does.
For precisely this reason we in the music field should strive towards
that which the ecology movement is today striving for throughout the
world in other areas too: we in the music industry must commit ourselves
to the survival of nature.
Every tone or sound has, to some degree, a rich internal life. One can
hear it and also make it even more audible. |
