Got home from church and had dinner with the fam like every Sunday. This Sunday was going off like clockwork until just about 2 hours ago. I had this inclination to write something that was just for my viewing, but later turned into a blog entry for you to see. My sudden inclination came to me as some sort of epiphany! For the past few weeks, I’ve been interviewing for this consultant position in Cupertino, CA. With 3 interviews under my belt, I am feeling quite confident that the job is mine. I’ve done the hiring for Jamba juice during my 3.5yrs working there and understand the process; however, I think I was getting ahead of myself and thinking too much down the line. I was forgetting that you cannot succeed down the line unless proceed to create it! (I’m copyrighting this phrase in the blogasphere world – FIRST!!!) Lately I’ve been pretty stressed out regarding if I got the job or not so to calm my nerves and put me at ease, I turn to my iTunes and my hard drives filled with music. Along with my iTunes I have also been peeping YouTube for some pick me ups.
This is it for my epiphany that my eyes were supposed to see, while below is the evolution of that epiphany.
Music is an art form that utilizes sound as its medium of conveyance. To many people in many cultures music is an important part of their way of life. I see music as a soundtrack, if you will, that is never ending. Music is an integral part of my life, perhaps everyone else’s, that I can conjure up certain memories in my past and relate them to certain songs that came out around that time and now. According to a 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, “There is no noise, only sound.” Kudos to him for acknowledging that simple notion of this art.
I’m not much of a dance besides the infamous waltz, cha-cha, and chi-chop from my few cotillions that I’ve taken part in. Dance is the connection with the masses through the interpretation of the music and what the artists are trying to convey. I have this ear for good music that is not only awe-inspiring and emotional, but a piece of work the transcends the literal meaning of the message and allows us to fully envelope ourselves within the music. Whether music is used to strengthen one’s self or it’s used to symbolize a significant moment in time through words and sound, one thing that remains constant is the gravitation to move to the music. From the Jersey Shore fist pumping to the ‘riding of the beat’ with the head nod, music has the force to will our bodies to go into some sort of motion that is natural, forceful, and complimentary to the music.
I passionately believe that the border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus. By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be, except that it is ’sound through time.’
Recently (before I gave up FaceBook for Lent) on FaceBook, your boy djROMULUS posted our homie Subi on YT. He was interviewed by Movement Lifestyle and Kanauru Productions. After the quick interview, my boy Subi showed off his talent and did a sick choreo to Letoya’s Not Anymore. After viewing that vid, I was left in awe and watched the dance sequence several times.
So my fellow S4f’ers, I leave you with my boy Subi and another dope choreographer by the name of Pat Cruz (executive director of APT and The Company) doing with they do so effortlessly – fuzing music with motion.
“don’t follow your dreams, just lead them!”
~m!c
Bryan ‘Subi’ Subijano (Letoya – Not Anymore)
Pat Cruz (Ne-Yo – Don’t Worry About it)
