Sri Chimnoy said: “Silence is the source of everything. It is the source of music and it is music itself. Silence is like a stream that goes to one place and becomes a river, or to another place and becomes a brook, or to the sea where it is totally expanded.”

Similarly, I believe that music is like a stream that goes to one place and becomes a river, or to another place and becomes a brook, or to the sea where it is totally expanded. This is so because music, unlike many other creative arts doesn’t suffer the problems of physics and is free to expand and contract, thus allowing the energy of the music to be distributed, flowly freely outward. This is what  gives music and the acts of listening, performing and/or composing the potential to be a timeless experience; the energy of the sound, whether emotional, psychological, or otherwise, has a way of transporting us by touching the core of our being, affecting the way we feel, the way we experience the world, and enhancing our sense of well-being. I’ve heard the composer Steve Roach refer to this as being in the “sound current“; I like to think of it that way.

I imagine being in the sound current as being one with a timeless state.