Art and music creation are two worlds that are closed to me. I am like one of Terry Pratchetts Disc world elves, I can appreciate music and art but I simply can not do it.
I love listening to singing and as I wrote in my blog about the sublime it is one of the easiest ways for me to experience that sensation. I remember as a child in assembly being completely transported by the sound of the other children singing ‘As I went a walking’. So much so that I was told off for not singing. I then made the effort to sing but only croaked my way through ‘When a Knight won his Spurs’. Later in life I would find myself transported by music. I enjoy everything from classical to Trance, anything with the power to move me and engage me gets my vote.
I was going to write that I couldn’t imagine a world without music because I think music is so fundamental to the human condition. I can not think of a single society that does not have music. But I can imagine a world of people like me, tone deaf, out of time and croaking about the world. What a nightmare