14:14 - Dec. 24, 2006
music, and i'm back
i think it might be good for me to persue a graduate degree because i love something; because something is my bliss, not because i simply think it might be "more useful". what is useful but what i truly love?
and another thing: i'm a musician. not just a thinker, a therapist, a teacher. i am all these things, but at my core i am a musician - i experience the world as a musician, a performer and an artist. music is what i love and what feeds my soul and sustains me (the longest i've gone without playing music in the past 16 years of my life was two weeks and i was withering in withdrawl before i got back to it). and if i'm going to persue further formal education, besides training in GIM, i might as well do it in something i love. in getting my BS in music therapy i was, somewhat, a step ahead of the game as most people who are MT-BC's seem to go back to school to get a master's in MTx. They often come from music performance or music ed backgrounds, but i've started off in music therapy and i think someday i would like to study just music. just music - the science and art of it.
i read an excellent definition of music today on the associaion of music and imagery website (i think it's ami-bonnymethod.org), and i won't quote it because i'm not sure exactly how it went, but it was something like: music - the dynamic art of sound in time. i remember a paper we had to write in undergrad, with our definition of music. no two of us came up with the same answer - it was amazing. but that quote sums it up for me well. at least, at this moment.
