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What is the purpose of music
when it's not meant to be danced? --

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asked a student his teacher.

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What is the purpose of sound
if not for entertaining the ears of a king?

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What is the purpose of sound?

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What is that behind this thing
we call being at the forefront or tradition?

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Chamame, or tango, or jazz,
or rock. New or old style.

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What holds absolutely all these forms?

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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

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is like the torch that was used
by the nations to see beauty in their way."

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Perhaps beauty is not the music,
or that mystery we call music.

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Perhaps music is a place that goes beyond

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"entertainment, or escape."

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Perhaps music is a place to ponder,

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think, meet, legitimize, integrate, build.

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And, above all, to feel a little safe,
every now and then.

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Beethoven said that music
is a higher revolution

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than philosophy or science.

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Quite possibly, Beethoven's music is.

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Perhaps, the rest can have
that desire at heart

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even if they are less complex,
or perhaps simple, but I think that

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the most important thing is to think that music,
and instrumental music above all;

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sometimes we're not well used to believe that

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things are only said through conceptual language,

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that of words, for example.

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And behind the music, that has no words,
there is a narrative,

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a construction, something that is being conveyed.

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And it is important to pay attention to decode

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and enjoy that which is being expressed.

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I think that many times in our country

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ignorance has created the deeper ignorance

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and the big unawareness of our musics
has created a huge fragmenting.

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And when you start to pay attention,
to know other things, you realize

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that everything is part
of a world of sounds.

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And this world of sounds is very complex.

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Extremely complex, as the universe.

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And Rumi used to say,
what surrounds you is so old

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and so young your understanding, that you better listen,
listen, be quiet and leave.

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So, I believe that you have to savor music.

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There is an ear, which is not the physical ear,
that is not the eardrum.

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There is an internal ear,
that is almost like savoring food...

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Well, sound can also be tasted
from that same place.

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And when you taste it,
you begin to perceive a lot of things

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that are very hard to translate
into conceptual language.

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And, of course, it is much better
to play than to speak.

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So this is why I came, and I want
to thank you for inviting me here

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to think, to ponder, to build,
and to feel safe for a while.

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Thank you very much.