Forum Week 6

The Indian rasa is something that i don't know much about at all, but from this brief introduction to them i believe that i can draw some inspiration from them. And i can see how so many musicians have been drawn into its philosophies. The relationship with music is strong and both feed off one another.

Music exists, or rather its popularity exists in the concept of emotion, yet when studying it in the classroom, theoretically, historically, the word rarely seems to come up. What emotion is the piece of music emulating, how does it make you feel. It sounds good, why? Because of the way it makes you feel, so not only should you understand theoretically how it made you feel that way, but how to recognise similar musical 'feelings' and how to string them together. We seem, i say we loosely but certainly i feel that i am trying to make things that sound clever, or cool, not really analysing what sort of feeling the music is emulating and what i want to do with this musical feeling. I need to develop a higher sense of muso-emotion creativity that goes beyond major = happy, minor = sad because this certainly isn't the case.