Giving Music
As I sit here listening to music mixed by Seb Fontaine, who always reminds me of my dear friend Barry, I found something I wrote about the sharing of music:
When we give people music, we reveal something about ourselves.
Something about the giver and something about the receiver.
It becomes shared space.
Listening develops as a new thing, a shared thing, now.
A new storyline. Yet an unknowable storyline
because we can only really know our own experience.
We want people we like to like the music we do.
We are disappointed when they don’t.
But when they do, it becomes a common thread
Weaving its way through our lives, common DNA
That carries the emotions of its creation and
Now our relationship
Along with it.
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