kind be the sound.

The Musical life.
It is something we all live. Taking notice of the rhythms and rhymes all around you is a choice. We often tune out the rhythms we are. Sounds has the intention to keep going. Music is in that sound.

My friend C handed me a book the day before my journey home. It was handed to me with a grin from ear to ear, “Brooke you will LOVE this book.” (** Notice the sound how you stress “love” when you read this silently in your head.) I don’t need to be there in person to read this blog to you for you to get the gist of her enthusiasm for me and softness in her voice. Even in your inner ear, there is a timbre, pitch, and sound silently heard. A type of sound resonating in your bones and skull only YOU can hear. And truth be told, she was right, I LOVE this book.

Within the first ten pages I was writing down quote after quote. Sometimes authors capture the right words , in the right rhythm that give you that “wow” factor. I read in amazement and sheer joy of this guys insight to sound, music and life. He chose good old fashion words and paper and I had a voice inside my head saying ,”yes!” , "totally!" , "right on!"....etc.
At times I just referred to the page itself in my notes because I resonated so much with his interpretations from top of the page to the bottom, dare I leave any part out.

Say your best friends, current crush, or current lovers name out loud (“ Insert name here”)….. Doesn’t that sound call for intentions? Doesn’t it seem to want to keep going? Listen to someone speak today, listen to their pace, the rhythm, the sound of their vowels. Listen to old voice mails that are still lingering on your phone. Is there a verse and chorus? How does the pitch and timbreof their voice/message flow through you?

With songs, especially , pop songs, I pick what I call “my fave part.” I always tend to zone in on some part of the song , some sound that I particularly enjoy. It sometimes repeats throughout the song and other times its just a blip on the page. I don’t know why I do this, but alas I do. Name a pop song…. I have a secret little insignificant yet favorite part. Ride in the car with me, Ill tell you may fave part blasting on the radio. Its fun to play with sounds and notice the smallest note dangling somewhere off the stanza. For it too deserves acknowledgement and value.


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Here are some notes I wrote from the book in my notepad:

p.56
It feels right to spin good energy toward a person on the sound of his or her name. That sound may still be spinning a thousand years from now.


p.65
Ive learned only to gradually take responsibility for the sounds of my life, inside and out both. I realize how I form them and they form me.

p.95
Music isn't a pill. It is an exchange between souls. If I play for you and heal myself, you can be in that wholeness regardless of mode or musical scheme.

p.116
Much composition takes place in the semi-darkness, in a perplexing weave of light and shadow , certainty and doubt. You mustn't get stuck there. The flow of these rare moments in not inward to self congratulation, but the outward thrill of discovery.

p. 127
Show me the nub of a pencil
with an eraser still fresh
and I'll show you mind less charm

p. 130
From the gallery of the great composers, Bach, Maozart, and Beethovan , are especially the ones to beat. And they will beat you every time. Even though it is constrictive and fruitless, one is still haunted by the unimaginable excellence of these musical minds. Why write second rate music? Why add to bins of lesser work? The answer is easy : Your culure needs you , your generation needs you. You are not competing with the dead , you are working out your own salvation.


I had to select what to put in this blog carefully, for all of it is just too good, yet too long to type.



I start choir today. I get make my own melodic sounds of my own to Bach’s: “Magnificent,” and more. The beautiful thing about a choir is that each time a Masterpiece like Hayden, Bach, etc are performed, it is NEVER the same performance. Closing in on 100 plus voices to sound as 4 voices ( S, B, T and Alto) is not easy and requires dedication, and hard work.
The music continues to grow , learn, and mold itself to the instruments it occupies, in each voice, old or young, and will continue its journey through us till eternity.


Today, make sounds of your own. Listen to sounds you never heard before. Listen to the rhythms of life around you. Let it consume you. Play with sound, stretch and squish it ( like " I squish yo head!") around your soul. Its purpose is your intention and it wants to continue. Dance to voice mails, sing books, make rings with your finger around the rim of your wine glass, shout from a mountain top and cause an avalanche, or find a patch of grass and listen to crickets gossip. You are a composer, creator, and consumer of love and life always. Our generation and the Universe needs you to keep the intention going.