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What is the purpose of music when it's not meant to be danced? --
asked a student his teacher.
What is the purpose of sound if not for entertaining the ears of a king?
What is the purpose of sound?
What is that behind this thing we call being at the forefront or tradition?
Chamame, or tango, or jazz, or rock. New or old style.
What holds absolutely all these forms?
What glues all of this together? What is the purpose of sound?
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Yupanqui said, "The light that shines on the heart of the artist
is like the torch that was used by the nations to see beauty in their way."
Perhaps beauty is not the music, or that mystery we call music.
Perhaps music is a place that goes beyond
"entertainment, or escape."
Perhaps music is a place to ponder,
think, meet, legitimize, integrate, build.
And, above all, to feel a little safe, every now and then.
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Beethoven said that music is a higher revolution
than philosophy or science.
Quite possibly, Beethoven's music is.
Perhaps, the rest can have that desire at heart
even if they are less complex, or perhaps simple, but I think that
the most important thing is to think that music, and instrumental music above all;
sometimes we're not well used to believe that
things are only said through conceptual language,
that of words, for example.
And behind the music, that has no words, there is a narrative,
a construction, something that is being conveyed.
And it is important to pay attention to decode
and enjoy that which is being expressed.
I think that many times in our country
ignorance has created the deeper ignorance
and the big unawareness of our musics has created a huge fragmenting.
And when you start to pay attention, to know other things, you realize
that everything is part of a world of sounds.
And this world of sounds is very complex.
Extremely complex, as the universe.
And Rumi used to say, what surrounds you is so old
and so young your understanding, that you better listen, listen, be quiet and leave.
So, I believe that you have to savor music.
There is an ear, which is not the physical ear, that is not the eardrum.
There is an internal ear, that is almost like savoring food...
Well, sound can also be tasted from that same place.
And when you taste it, you begin to perceive a lot of things
that are very hard to translate into conceptual language.
And, of course, it is much better to play than to speak.
So this is why I came, and I want to thank you for inviting me here
to think, to ponder, to build, and to feel safe for a while.
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Thank you very much.