echoes of the spheres

Well, the government finally came to a compromise, which was necessary. It will be interesting to see how or if we recover from this point. Maybe I'm growing a bit more skeptical with age but I kind of feel like this this is happening too much over our heads for us to pull out of this quickly or gracefully...the awkwardness of the squirming in this video is almost unbearable.

Now, to move out of awkward and into the sweet pool of inspiration, let's talk about music! I have music on the brain for huge chunks of most days, but I've been carrying it around with me literally now that I've finally conquered my ridiculous tech fear of the Ipod...I can keep a blog but can't work an Ipod? Well, apparently, I can work an Ipod and, since overcoming this strange doubt (thank you, Steven!), it's been glued to my hip almost constantly...on walks around campus, while cleaning houses, at the gym, even while just sitting at home because there's something truly wonderful about submerging yourself into total headphone land!

On some other musical musings, technology has now enabled us to SEE piano notes. Be sure to click on the interactive keyboard on that page and make your own orbs! The still images captured look strikingly like some of Emoto's water crystals.

Also, in a technique called "stellar seismology", scientists have been recording the sounds of various stars, including our sun. Take a listen, especially to the "star song" on the third link from the top.

All of these star songs and piano bubbles remind me of this verse by Lord Byron:

There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.

I agree with him. There's music in all things. Though I haven't been playing nearly as much intentional music lately...taking a bit of a hibernation to generate some new ideas...I'm alternately and deeply enjoying headphone land and the humming, cracking, gurgling, tweeting, and buzzing of dishwashers, birds, roads, ceiling fans, lightbulbs, and the like.