What's your sound ?

ना मन्का फेर , ना माला तोल ,
ना मन्दिर जा, ना मंत्र बोल ,
जप-ध्यान की फिज़ूल है तेरी यह लगन ,
सच्चा मोक्ष उसे मिले , जो है धुन में मग्न । - me


Louis Ferdinand Celine said - "To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them."

We live in a world dominated by overflowing iPods and multiple-genre-rich concerts; a world comprising of people who listen to artificial sound that helps them reflect on their own psychedelic minds; of people who like fresh music produced out of instruments in front of their own eyes where they can see the expressions on the face of the performer; of people who just treat music like medicine and let it slowly work its magic in the background ; of people who think it is inauspicious to do anything else while listening to music, hoping to pay respects to the performer......

If you're not able to exactly determine which one of the above categories you belong to, you probably belong to them all ! The funny thing about music is that it's able to enter your head even from no exterior sources, and the funnier thing is that we don't care to find out how that happened :).

People go through their whole lives associating their behavior, characteristics, living with tunes or songs, or even lyrics.. and try to find meaning. That really gets me thinking... what if music is just a means to find out the answer to why we're all here ? And what if one day when we find our sound ? Will we have all the answers and no longer be confused ??

While I ponder over these questions, and over my next post... I only wish that you don't find your sound anytime soon.. as there is so much to hear in this world... so much that our minds have to be opened up to... and so much that we need to experience, through music or otherwise...

Shalom !