The color of music

 In front of a stone church in Barcelona
stood two young men singing arias,
and the vibrant colors of the notes they sang
as they floated through the night
were astounding

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 Maybe they’re students from the music academy

 Yeah

 I didn’t know that each musical note
had a different color

Me either
They’re pretty cool

 It would be great
to be able to see spoken words too

 Perhaps sometimes
Whether or not it would be great
would depend on who was speaking,
what they were saying
and how they were saying it
I already feel the vibrations of words —
and they’re not always nice

 Yeah,
tone of voice,
volume
and the matter being discussed
make a big difference
in how a word feels

 Yeah
Maybe it would be better
if people were to talk a bit less
Then we might all feel a bit better

 Yeah
And a lot of bands would sound better
without their singer
Many good songs
have been ruined by horrible lyrics

 Yeah,
like Calexico
They make nice music,
but the singer manages to destroy
most of their songs

 Fortunately they have a few instrumental songs

 Yeah

Dirty Three is one of my favorite bands

 Mine too

 They almost never sing

 Yeah,
they just play beautiful and compelling rhythms
that take you on a trip

 Horse Stories is a great album

 It’s one of my favorites

 It would be nice if more songwriters
would wait for inspiration
and let a song come naturally
rather than sit somewhere and try to write one
and end up inflicting a bunch of rubbish
on the rest of the world

 Yeah,
silence is better than rubbish

 And if someone is going to sing,
they ought to sing clearly,
so that people can understand what they’re singing,
otherwise they might as well just sing vowel sounds,
which is often quite nice

 Yeah,
like Leonard Cohen
You can understand every word he sings,
and each song is meaningful

 Dawn Upshaw has a nice voice

 She has a beautiful voice

I love the way she sings Henryck Gorecki’s third symphony

 So do I

Lucy has a beautiful voice too
The way she sang at the fire the other night was divine

 Lucy’s an angel

 Her voice travels
to the depths of one’s being

 Yeah
I could listen to Lucy sing without pause
forever

 Me too
And I could listen to Vannte play his guitar forever as well

 Yeah
They sure make
some beautiful music

 Hey,
check out that constellation of notes

 Wow
What a combination of colors

 And so the two friends continued to listen
to the opera singers
and to watch the notes drift by

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