Acá una parte del discurso de (el maestro) Sting, cuando recibió su Doctorado Honoris Causa por la Universidad de Berklee (ojalá un día pueda escribir algo similar!)
Este discurso habla acerca de la importancia del silencio. Ahora, en estos días, en esta etapa de mi vida, tengo que abrazar la importancia del silencio.
"Paradoxically, I'm coming to believe in the importance of silence in music. The power of silence after a phrase of music for example; the dramatic silence after the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, or the space between the notes of a Miles Davis solo. There is something very specific about a rest in music. You take your foot off the pedal and pay attention. I'm wondering whether, as musicians, the most important thing we do is merely to provide a frame for silence. I'm wondering if silence itself is perhaps the mystery at the heart of music? And is silence the most perfect music of all?
Songwriting is the only form of meditation that I know. And it is only in silence that the gifts of melody and metaphor are offered. To people in the modern world, true silence is something we rarely experience. It is almost as if we conspire to avoid it. Three minutes of silence seems like a very long time. It forces us to pay attention to ideas and emotions that we rarely make any time for. There are some people who find this awkward, or even frightening.
Silence if disturbing. It is disturbing because it is the wavelength of the soul. If we leave no space in our music—and I'm as guilty as anyone else in this regard—then we rob the sound we make of a defining context. It is often music born from anxiety to create more anxiety. It's as if we're afraid of leaving space. Great music's as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. A bar's rest is as important and significant as the bar of demi-, semi-quavers that precedes it. What I'm trying to say here is that if ever I'm asked if I'm religious I always reply, 'Yes, I'm a devout musician'. Music puts me in touch with something beyond the intellect, something otherworldly, something sacred.
How is it that some music can move us to tears? Why is some music indescribably beautiful? I never tire of hearing Samuel Barber's 'Adagio for Strings' or Faures 'Pavane' or Otis Redding's 'Dock of the Bay.' These pieces speak to me in the only religious language I understand. They induce in me a state of deep meditation, of wonder. They make me silent."
Hoy más que nunca, quiero apreciar el silencio, ofrecer silencio, amar el silencio, vivir y dejarme llevar por el silencio. Quiero que el silencio no me asuste, me de miedo o ansiedad. Quiero que el silencio me hable y hable por mí.
Hoy tengo fe en el silencio.
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