Extract from 'a fork in the road' by David Hulse.
In 'the world is sound', Joachim-Ernst Berendt says that the 12 Tone Equal Temperament is a limited and closed system. Substituting 12 equally spaced tones for a vast universe of subtle intervallic relationships virtually painted music into a corner from which it has not yet, extricated itself. 12 tone equal temperament can create situations such as boxed in thinking, stuffed and suppressed emotions, fear based or lack consciousness, all of which then tend to manifest into physical symptoms called dis-ease.
All of us, including our children, are subjected everyday to the 12 tone equal temperament mentality that produces an overly busy, caffine high, nervousness. Our society's solution is to put everyone on tranquillizers or ADD medications. We put the kids on drugs and they listen to western music. Imagine what would happen if we fed their delicate auditory system music played in just intonation, by composers such as Mozart. Miracles are happening when kids listen to Mozart using just intonation.
People in our society are starved for the primodial sounds of creation, the exact ratio's and frequencies as they were first sounded forth. According to Stuart Isacoff, author of temperament: the idea that solved music's greatest riddle (2001) 12 tone temperament "is a violation of nature. It is like throwing away the keys to the universe".
Come to the edge.
We cant. We are afraid.
Come to the edge.
We cant. We will fall.
Come to the edge.
And they came
And he pushed.
And they flew.
Poem by Christopher Logue. 