How many times in your life do you take the time to soundcheck, before you perform your chosen action?
Music is inspired by the impulsive authentic vibration of source.
With courage and curiosity in time, it formulates into what civilised beings would describe as a ‘song’.
But is that song with all it’s embodiment and truth ready to be performed?
Yes its raw — and for those who can see raw, or appreciate raw, perhaps it warrants a performance.
But those types are few.
And even then, we are talking about those who see diamonds when witness to a blank slate of coal. Able to imagine and feel the diamond aching to be realised in that slate of dark matter before it’s carved into.
And for that, they must have a vivid imagination, and a mind and heart as open as one can fathom.
However in life, the revel and purging of our raw without a sound check, enough rehearsals, or a rehearsal at all, is what prevents us often from the fruits of our maturity and depth in our relationships.
We expect too much from our audience.
We want them to hear our intentions, but don’t take the time to craft our rawness into vibrations or a song that speaks our intention in its purity. Lacking the ability to deliver our message to our audiences hearts without need for any further explanation, or room for misunderstanding.
The irony is we punish and chastise ourselves for singing without taking the time to sound check, as we despise the result or responses to our songs. However we are not willing to put in the time, effort or hours to help craft it in the way we wish to be heard.
And I guess the question here is why?
Why arent we willing to learn, practice and continually tune our instrument?
What prevents us from committing to a time, showing up on time or even setting a time in the first place?
Is it a false belief that once we’re ‘good’ we’re always good?
Do we not care enough?
And if we don’t care enough,
Why don’t we care enough?
Are we just being selfish?
Are we only thinking about our part of the concert, and not enough about our audience and how our lack of craft, commitment, empathy, practice, dedication may affect them?
And if not, why not?
This piece was inspired by Criatura. An exceptional world music band from Portugal composed of 11 musicians with every instrument one would dream of hearing simultaneously. I had the pleasure of sitting through a soundcheck with them on September 8th 2017.
