WEBVTT 00:00:17.448 --> 00:00:20.466 (Applause) 00:00:29.001 --> 00:00:32.000 (Music) 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.500 (Music Ends) 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:06.000 (Applause) 00:02:09.736 --> 00:02:12.767 What is the purpose of music when it's not meant to be danced? -- 00:02:12.802 --> 00:02:15.099 asked a student his teacher. 00:02:15.134 --> 00:02:20.446 What is the purpose of sound if not for entertaining the ears of a king? 00:02:20.481 --> 00:02:22.722 What is the purpose of sound? 00:02:22.757 --> 00:02:26.821 What is that behind this thing we call being at the forefront or tradition? 00:02:26.856 --> 00:02:31.722 Chamame, or tango, or jazz, or rock. New or old style. 00:02:31.757 --> 00:02:36.227 What holds absolutely all these forms? 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:40.200 What glues all of this together? What is the purpose of sound? 00:02:40.900 --> 00:02:43.944 (Music) 00:04:58.979 --> 00:05:00.058 (Music Ends) 00:05:00.093 --> 00:05:03.043 (Applause) 00:05:13.078 --> 00:05:16.884 Yupanqui said, "The light that shines on the heart of the artist 00:05:16.919 --> 00:05:22.265 is like the torch that was used by the nations to see beauty in their way." 00:05:22.300 --> 00:05:26.939 Perhaps beauty is not the music, or that mystery we call music. 00:05:26.974 --> 00:05:30.139 Perhaps music is a place that goes beyond 00:05:30.174 --> 00:05:34.786 "entertainment, or escape." 00:05:34.821 --> 00:05:38.813 Perhaps music is a place to ponder, 00:05:38.848 --> 00:05:44.703 think, meet, legitimize, integrate, build. 00:05:44.738 --> 00:05:52.094 And, above all, to feel a little safe, every now and then. 00:05:52.129 --> 00:05:55.406 (Music) 00:07:26.500 --> 00:07:28.500 (Music Ends) 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:31.800 (Applause) 00:07:42.779 --> 00:07:46.033 Beethoven said that music is a higher revolution 00:07:46.068 --> 00:07:49.311 than philosophy or science. 00:07:49.346 --> 00:07:52.294 Quite possibly, Beethoven's music is. 00:07:52.329 --> 00:07:56.504 Perhaps, the rest can have that desire at heart 00:07:56.539 --> 00:08:04.687 even if they are less complex, or perhaps simple, but I think that 00:08:04.722 --> 00:08:11.724 the most important thing is to think that music, and instrumental music above all; 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:16.936 sometimes we're not well used to believe that 00:08:16.971 --> 00:08:20.184 things are only said through conceptual language, 00:08:20.219 --> 00:08:22.074 that of words, for example. 00:08:22.109 --> 00:08:28.458 And behind the music, that has no words, there is a narrative, 00:08:28.493 --> 00:08:33.787 a construction, something that is being conveyed. 00:08:33.822 --> 00:08:40.328 And it is important to pay attention to decode 00:08:40.363 --> 00:08:43.348 and enjoy that which is being expressed. 00:08:43.383 --> 00:08:47.328 I think that many times in our country 00:08:47.363 --> 00:08:53.295 ignorance has created the deeper ignorance 00:08:53.330 --> 00:08:58.507 and the big unawareness of our musics has created a huge fragmenting. 00:08:58.542 --> 00:09:04.128 And when you start to pay attention, to know other things, you realize 00:09:04.163 --> 00:09:07.397 that everything is part of a world of sounds. 00:09:07.432 --> 00:09:11.076 And this world of sounds is very complex. 00:09:11.111 --> 00:09:14.463 Extremely complex, as the universe. 00:09:14.498 --> 00:09:19.469 And Rumi used to say, what surrounds you is so old 00:09:19.504 --> 00:09:26.547 and so young your understanding, that you better listen, listen, be quiet and leave. 00:09:26.582 --> 00:09:30.266 So, I believe that you have to savor music. 00:09:30.301 --> 00:09:33.290 There is an ear, which is not the physical ear, that is not the eardrum. 00:09:33.325 --> 00:09:39.228 There is an internal ear, that is almost like savoring food... 00:09:39.263 --> 00:09:43.372 Well, sound can also be tasted from that same place. 00:09:43.407 --> 00:09:47.106 And when you taste it, you begin to perceive a lot of things 00:09:47.141 --> 00:09:52.314 that are very hard to translate into conceptual language. 00:09:52.349 --> 00:09:55.378 And, of course, it is much better to play than to speak. 00:09:55.413 --> 00:09:59.971 So this is why I came, and I want to thank you for inviting me here 00:10:00.006 --> 00:10:07.195 to think, to ponder, to build, and to feel safe for a while. 00:10:08.500 --> 00:10:11.500 (Applause) 00:10:12.125 --> 00:10:15.289 (Music) 00:12:16.500 --> 00:12:18.500 (Music Ends) 00:12:18.894 --> 00:12:21.859 (Applause) 00:12:23.794 --> 00:12:25.794 Thank you very much.