Silent Music
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I am more or less 100% tonedeaf. I can hear that one tone is higher than another, if the difference between them is sufficiently big. But if they are close to one another, I get problems, and when people talk about one tone called C and another one called D, I pretend that I understand, but in reality I do not know what they are talking aboout. Add to that that I have no sense of rhytm, meaning that it for instance was impossible to learn me how to march in the same tact as the people around me, or dance such dances that require that you follow certain rules for how to move. Music is a closed country to me. But in spite of this I can have some kind of primtive joy listening to music. All of my life I have envied the people around me who were able to participate in and create music, the guys that could enter a party with their guitar under the arm and very soon be the very center of it. And I have admired musicians ability to cooperate, to let each other play various parts under jam-sessions etc. And last but not |
least I have been fascinated by blind musicians. They are people who in a way lives in another universe than I do, but who are able to convey things from that universe to me, who lives outside it. This drawing is an attempt from a tone-deaf amateur drawer to give something back to the people that create music. It started with the guy on the contrabass. But once he was there, he wanted to play other instruments too. Thus came clonings of him into existence, playing saxophone and piano etc, and soon they were a full orchestra of equal and blind musicians. It is an annoying detail that blind musicians wont be able to see the drawing, that is a shame. But other musicians will be able to see it, that is something. And if this works the way I hope and believe, people who see this drawing will hear some kind of music in their inner ear, presumably something they appreciate in the jazz-/ blues sector. This is the nearest I ever will get to create some kind of music. |