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24 Aug 2012
Face to face, or soul to soul - 4
Alex Khodakovsky from the book "One step to musical creativity"
Man himself, too, a close range looks other than inhistoric perspective, then all his achievements are brought into a singlefocus, from the first fire lit in a dark cave to the nuclear reactor.Particularly complex is the picture at the bottom of the world's deepest well -the human spirit.
What chimeras don’t we find there!Yet, in spite of all chimeras, man is the most perfect product of Nature. Andthe egotistic instinct - that power almighty torturing us in the depths of theunconscious - in the light of day forced to behave quite differently: tochampion Good and the create Beauty, to strive for truth and liberty, indeed,man presents the greatest paradox. Why is that so? Music, among others, hasspent painful ages looking for an answer. One can reduce everything to nonsenseand thus not answer at all... Not, of course, if one belongs to the category ofabsurdity’s. In the experiments of musical synthesis, alchemy, one should lookfor constructive formulae and new elements of Beauty.
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