WHAT IS MUSIC? Music is pure magic.

WHAT IS MUSIC? Music is pure magic. It is a wonderful gift to humanity. Music moves us, and soothes us. It stimulates. It makes us want to dance or sing. It makes us feel happy or sad, inspired or uplifted. It affects our mood in all kinds of infinite ways. It can be exquisitely subtle or wildly raucous: from a lullaby, to a war cry for revolution.

WHEN SATISH KUMAR asked me to guest-edit the special Music For Transformation feature in this issue of Resurgence, I was delighted, as it gave me the opportunity to reflect once again on that most profound question, What actually is music?

Music is different things to different people: to Ian Skelly, author of the article ‘Beauty Speaks’, above all things music has a transcendental significance that is captured in the beautiful patterns of Nature and architecture – a kind of ‘frozen music’; to Mark Kidel, author of ‘Conversations and Crossroads’, music can bridge cultures in a universal ‘conversation’ that is beyond intellect or reason, but which is heartfelt; to Brian Eno, music brings the joy of unexpected and beautiful sound; and to singer/songwriters like myself and Howard Milner, music – and singing in particular – takes us to a world apart: a world beyond self and ego; a place of emotion that touches the soul

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音乐是什么？音乐是纯粹的魔法。这是一个美妙的礼物送给人类。音乐感动我们，抚慰我们。它刺激。它使我们想跳舞或唱歌。它使我们感到快乐或悲伤，灵感或隆起。它影响着各种无限的方式我们的心情。它可以细腻微妙的或疯狂的喧闹：从一首摇篮曲，为革命战争

哭泣。当一库马尔让我的客人在这个问题上的中兴转型特征编辑的特殊的音乐，我很高兴，因为它给了我机会再次反映在最深刻的问题，音乐究竟是什么？

音乐是不同的事情不同的人：伊恩斯凯利，文章的作者说“美，在所有的事物中的音乐有一个先验的意义，是自然与建筑的–一种“凝固的音乐”的美丽图案捕获；马克奇德儿，“对话和十字路口的作者，音乐可以桥文化中的一种普遍的“对话”是超越理智或理性，但这是发自内心的；布瑞恩ENO，音乐带来意想不到的快乐和美丽的声音；和歌手/词曲作者喜欢自己和霍华德米尔纳，音乐–和特别–歌声把我们分离的世界：超越自我和自我的世界；一个地方的情感，触及灵魂