The Technology of
Space-Time Fusion
Weightlessness in
the Musical
Presentation
The State of
Suspension of the
Musical Space-Time Permeation
Integrated Control Over the Musical
Force-Fields
Space-Time Fusion in the
Musical
Sound-Space
Space-Time Fusion in the Motif-Space
Space-Time Fusion in the
Melody-Space
Space-Time Fusion
in the
Sequence-Space
Space-Time Fusion in the Infinity of
Harmony
This fusion of space and time does not mean that our opposing human qualities and their expressions in the musical sound-space are suspended. The musical means for stimulating the space-awareness remain significant on the level of our mind, but now we recognize them, from the common basis of space and time in the infinite, as the diversity of our own inner self-consciousness.
To understand how classical music may stimulate the awareness of space and time in an alert listener, we think of the fearless user of a swing-boat: high up, just before he turns over at the peak, he reaches a point where he is standing still, a moment of weightlessness, in which he forgets the world, and only one question is left: “Forward or backward?” At this moment all problems are forgotten.
In such a state of suspension, the spaces, as experienced by our understanding, permeate the spaces as revealed to us by our feeling, and the longer we maintain the state of mutual permeation of feeling and understanding, the stronger is our experience of enlivened silence.
This permeation of feeling and understanding in the space-time relationship, to the complete integration of feeling and understanding of the listener, can only be achieved if the musician masters the entire field of music in an integrated manner.
Outwardly, the achievement of the musician lies particularly in his mastery of the overtone-mechanics – the level of the musical sound-space.
On a level superior to the sound-space, in the motif-space, which determines the musical sound-space from within, our experience of the fusion of space and time is even more profound when, through the inner power of the sequence-technique, diverging motifs turn around and return to each other.
On a level superior to the motif-space, in the melody-space, the fusion of space and time within our awareness is achieved even more effectively when a motif unexpectedly changes and, as if in disguise, suddenly appears from behind the curtain of the musical stage and realizes the principles of the melody-technique.
On a level superior to the melody-space, on the level of the sequence-spaces, the experience of weightlessness is produced even more powerfully when a sequence, with all its parameters balanced, transforms into another sequence.
On the highest level of musical creativity weightlessness is achieved in our awareness when a sound, a motif, a melody, or a sequence identifies with the harmony, recognizes its original home, remains there for a moment, and then, strengthened, continues its creative journey through the world of music.
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