Symphonies and festivals
Yesterday I had intended this post to be a bit different than it is today. I was emptying the dishwasher (brainless activity that allows my mind to wander) and I was thinking about a couple of albums that I have and what they say about the sounds that I hear in nature. One is called Soil Festivities and the other has a track on it called Symphony of the Forest.
Initially I had thought that expressing the activity found in the soil and forest as a festival or symphony was a disservice to what was going on. It was a presumption of sorts that the arrangement of noises and activities that classify a symphony or festival is somewhat indicative of what is being observed or expressed in these natural environments. I thought that the pieces should have been named "Sounds of the Forest" or simply "Forest". Not as poetic, but I thought it was more true to what reality was.
But then I thought that, as being made in God's image the pinnacle of his creation, the way we express ourselves is somewhat more "God-like" than any animal, bird, or insect. Could it be that these gentlemen (Kitaro and Vangelis) who are not Christians (as far as I know) have tapped into the reality that the organization we make of sound and activity bears the image of the Creator to a greater degree than the biological automatons that inhabit the majority of this globe?
More to ponder....but my brain is getting full.
Initially I had thought that expressing the activity found in the soil and forest as a festival or symphony was a disservice to what was going on. It was a presumption of sorts that the arrangement of noises and activities that classify a symphony or festival is somewhat indicative of what is being observed or expressed in these natural environments. I thought that the pieces should have been named "Sounds of the Forest" or simply "Forest". Not as poetic, but I thought it was more true to what reality was.
But then I thought that, as being made in God's image the pinnacle of his creation, the way we express ourselves is somewhat more "God-like" than any animal, bird, or insect. Could it be that these gentlemen (Kitaro and Vangelis) who are not Christians (as far as I know) have tapped into the reality that the organization we make of sound and activity bears the image of the Creator to a greater degree than the biological automatons that inhabit the majority of this globe?
More to ponder....but my brain is getting full.
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