I'm sitting in a small conference room in the basement of a much larger office building that has been my day home for 10 months. There is one small window in the corner, but of course my back is to it. The room is increasingly messy, filling up with papers, files, cables, and coffee cups. I have no other meeting scheduled so I'll be in here all day.
But I found a way to travel to another world. Speakers no more than a centimeter in diameter fit snugly in my ears and fill my ears with music. I'm listening to a song called "I Am the True Vine" and can't help feel but feel a little guilty for the escape it provides. It's the type of song I can listen to a hundred times in a row and never get sick of. There's a point in the song where the altos hold a single note that supports the melodic progression of the rest of the choir. But that single note carries so much energy. As it wavers ever so slightly in and out of perfect harmony with itself, overtones can be heard high above the other voices. First, one octave above...then two, and the second is almost inaudible. But to hear it is almost surreal because no human voice could sing a note so high, and yet it is there.
What is your escape?
3 comments:
Your music escape reminds me of the time in high school when a friend and I were pretending to listen through huge earphones to a record of MacBeth, when actually it was Arlo Guthrie singing "Alice's Restaurant" (We kept the record in the Shakespeare album cover). No huge music appreciation effort on our part, just a need to break out of the humdrum existence of English class. Whatever it takes for variety.
Let my physical therapy be a cautionary tale--get up and away from the computer and stretch regularly.
motherbaumert
Altos rock!
M.B.
Hey Bri -
I get what you're saying about music allow you to escape. I've often been reading/doing homework etc at a library or cafe and then someone comes up to me to talk and I'm jolted out of one world into another. I'm glad you have that to lean on - everyone needs some kind of escape or a way of relieving stress:)
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