You gave me two recordings of Wanda Landowska and I have listened to them. In one of them, there’s a passage which is a pure marvel.<\/i>[[It is the transcription, by W. Landowska, of a “popular Polish song.” ]]<\/p>\n
Isn’t it!<\/p>\n
It doesn’t last long – it’s like crystal.<\/i><\/p>\n
Yes, exactly! I found it extraordinary.<\/p>\n
It’s so beautiful! I’ve never heard anything so pure.<\/i><\/p>\n
Pure, yes, absolutely pure!<\/p>\n
That’s a divine means of expression. It’s really a divine manifestation on earth….<\/i><\/p>\n
Yes, very pure – and simple.<\/p>\n
I have always wondered why I wasn’t born a musician….<\/i><\/p>\n
You must have been a musician.<\/p>\n
It’s really a regret in my life not to be a musician. Writing is NEVER “it.” But capturing a note like that one …<\/i><\/p>\n
Oh, mon petit, yesterday or the day before, I heard something … I don’t exactly know what it is – it isn’t music, I mean it isn’t the notation of some musical instrument: it’s the notation of a vibration of … I can’t say, I didn’t understand. [[It was electronic music. ]] But in it … At first, you feel exactly as if you had entered a madhouse: it’s completely incoherent, disjointed, and everything is unexpected because there is no logic – absolutely nothing mental. So you go from one sound to another, without any transition, and your first impression is exactly like … it’s madness. But if you listen, now and then
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Page 107<\/font><\/p>\n there’s a sound, which isn’t the sound of a musical instrument … absolutely wonderful! But it lasts one second. You would like it to continue – pfft! gone. And now and then there is a voice, quite like the human voice, you can almost hear words, there seem to be words – which made me think that the sound of our voice has its origin elsewhere (below or above, I don’t know; where those vibrations come from I cannot say). And after a while, I saw that something in the being [Mother’s being] was … I can’t say “interested,” it was something that enjoyed <\/i>it, that didn’t exactly have a “pleasant” sensation, but almost felt a need for the unforeseen, an unforeseen beyond all that we can imagine: disjointed, no logic, no sense, nothing. It SOUNDS like chaos, but all of a sudden I felt it wasn’t chaos, it responded to another law. And when it came towards the end, I really wanted it to go on for a long time. At first, you start laughing, you make fun of it, you giggle as if you were faced with something absolutely farcical. But now and then, oh! … And you’ve hardly had the time to appreciate it when it’s already gone – a marvel. A marvel: a sound the like of which I have never heard, which no instrument can produce. You go through all kinds of states, but curiously enough, I discovered in the being, somewhere in the consciousness, a sort of joy or intense interest in the absolutely unexpected – the unexpected, which to the mentality is unspeakably farcical. Interesting. Page 108<\/font><\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April April 4, 1964 You gave me two recordings of Wanda Landowska and I have listened to them. In one of them, there’s a passage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-05-volume-05","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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