As a musician, trained in the art of listening, the harmony of the spheres, and the universal language, perhaps the part that musicians like myself can play is to create resonance out of diverse voices. Perhaps, I can help inspire better communication between experts, who may be like the blind men trying to figure the elephant out by focusing on one aspect of this dynamic and ginormous phenomenon.
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We are designed and wired to operate as social animals, by cohabiting, cooperating, and commiserating – this is my recurrent thought as I conduct my research on the power of music. There are many social mechanisms that are in place to meet our inherent social needs: prescribed greetings, festivals, feasts, cooperative projects… Music is one of these social mechanisms.
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Perhaps we, as artists, are to embody our human potentials that can come from wholehearted pursuits of things beyond our immediate biological and social needs.
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Quoted from the LA Times article “Hirata also sees the collective experience of music as a possible antidote to the short-sighted – and often selfish – tendencies that prevents from seeing the bigger climate picture.”
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With many variables like rapidly advancing technologies and climate change makes our past unreliable a reference to predict our future. Our sense of aesthetic that transcends our logic and calculations are being reevaluated today as something that may be vital to our humanity as we face our existential threats.
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