How does one begin?
A universe can grow in a single image of the Tree, the duration of the moment is completely irrelevant. This blog will function as a test for certain theories and will document the learnings that one has experienced in this world. Poetic affects from a work of art can be discovered within oneself even before the work of art can take complete root in the mind of the viewer.
The movement in cinema is created before the film even starts. Just as the film maker who views the image before he can even construct in the film. A silence has pervaded one's existence for the longest duration. One will begin with a short note.
The freedom experienced in a moment can be unique, can be preconceived and can be discovered over any amounts of duration. To experience each moment, each image in front of us and within us must develop. This can be in the same manner in which an Indian classical music raga might unfold, in the Gwalior tradition, the words of the song text, rhythm and melody. While the performance unfolds, these multiple layers, evolve and grow, the freedom experienced by a Khayal singer is thus the freest, capable of individuating every moment. The same moment can be understood through an evocation in the transition of scales in the Avroh (descent) from the upper Shadja to the Komal Nishada of the middle octave, in the pentatonic raga Tilang. The absence of Rishabha and Dhaivat in the raga, adds to an unprecedented silence while allowing for an infinite movement from the notes before and after them. To consider the words of the bandishes or the word/poem/song text/lyric that features in our Gharana, there is an implicit understanding that the text has a figurative meaning with a certain sensory density. The semantic cannot be separated from the physical properties of words. Just as the materiality of things (elements/structures/architecture/etc) cannot be separated from the materiality of words.
