The bottom line is, we must take the time out of life to
listen to the music. Cliché, figuratively,
and literally. Everyone is always
killing themselves to do the best they can and be the best they can be and are
rushing from one point of life to the next because they feel they have no
time. I am guilty of this as well.
I don’t want to live life like this. What’s the point of carrying burden on top of
burden which could potentially just crumble down on top of you anyways? Music is a therapy.
I’m turning this year around. After dealing with the several hardships in
the past year, my internship in electric dance music has thrown multiple opportunities
right in my path, many Thursday nights through Friday mornings devoted to getting
lost in the music, the lights, the friendship.
Drug-free, but I still lose myself in it and I’m addicted to the
feeling.
“Here I am transported to a place
That feels unreal
Futuristic”
(“It’s Kind of Funny”, Bright Lights Big
City, http://visual-symphonies02.blogspot.com/)
It’s hard to explain the feeling, but it does indeed bring
you to a different place, a different dimension where all that matters is you,
the music, and the love and friends you’re surrounded by.
I’ve only been to local shows; maybe one to three DJs for a
night. After the hardest semester of
college and before I graduate, this New Year’s I’ll be going to Dallas, Texas for
my first ever festival: Lights All Night 2012.
It is three days long. Needless
to say, this will be the ultimate therapy to start fresh in 2013.
“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is
lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence of
the work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout the time
of its existence.” (Benjamin, Illuminations)
At a festival or a show—surrounded by similar people who
share the same love and passion for music as you do—there is no concept of time
and space. This place is something
surreal and it’s as if time freezes for a little bit just for the people there
that they may forget about life for an instant and be completely enveloped in
the music.
