Natural Form

Despite we listen to music ultimately because of the final overall emotional and atmospheric experience that it creates, music begins as form. The correlation between form and substance is essential part of every artistic pleasure, and differs it from non-artistic. Without this correlation, even the most pleasant feelings are not of aesthetic nature, such as tasting cake; or if with some device someone could project some experience directly to us, we wouldn’t see it as artistic, because it wouldn’t be a consequence of seeing and following the structure of some object.

We can spot some natural experiences outside of world of art as having this artistic nature, before all the experience of human beauty. We can recognize this partially aesthetic nature of human beauty, when we wonder, as with a piece of art, what is it that makes us like it, and why we like one face and not another.

Yet nowhere is this correlation so divine and pure as in world of art, and we can freely state in no art in such a degree as in music. Fascination that music holds can also be seen in the connection between senses, mind and emotions that occurs in it; through music, senses, mind and emotions come together; music is science of sounds, and geometry of emotions. More precisely, our senses are the first to be engaged; then our minds recognize certain further organization, on a more abstract level; and finally we react with the wholeness of our being, with feeling. That the order is like this is obvious for the senses, maybe less obvious for the mind but still it is enough to recall what is probably known to everyone - when we realize that we truly experienced a melody or a larger composition only when we hear it multiple times, when it “enters our ear” – that is, when our mind finally manages to “decipher” it.