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You can view the full video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjbpwlqp5Qw&feature=player_embedded
It's a recording of "Africa" by a group called Perpetuum Jazzile of Slovenia.
I do love a good thunderstorm! I just closed my eyes and listened (opening once to learn what created the "thunder".)
I don't think your aesthetic is boneheaded at all, but biblical. Art is to point to the truth of God's creation. The point at which I create a piece of work that calls on you to "gaze into my navel" I have erred. Or worse, when I create some unknowable truth in my art, that I know as the artist (shaman, prophet, priest), and that you must worship me to try to discover. These are graven images and idolatry. An artist must discipline his gift to point to truth about God, not new truth about God, not additions to God's word and certainly not truths about my angst ridden self or my self generated doctrine.
Look around at what art is out there. Most requires you to either "decide what it means to you" or to somehow grovel at the feet of the master (artist) with the other worshippers and to seek the truth contained in his art.
A man could spend a lifetime simply trying to glorify God by pointing to His created beauty. It's sad that landscapes are now simply seen as "decoration" and the man who creates them as a "hobbyist". Instead we gaze at the naked emperor and marvel at his beautiful clothes.
>You can view the full video here:
Thanks for the whole link, Cathy. Hearing the contrast between the beautiful male and female voices God created was just as inspiring as hearing the "rain," if not more so. [They were a lot more distinct without a bunch of instruments drowning them out.]
> I just closed my eyes and listened
Yes, I've listened to the song several times while doing other things --not watching-- just enjoying the harmonious voices.
Ask any Crum, Africa (by Toto) is the best song ever. This version was great.
Dear Ben,
I couldn't agree more. I'd say that it's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do ;)
>"you must worship me to try to discover"
This is not just a danger for artists.
(BTW, Adam, the lyrics are clearly "a hundred men on Mars could ever do".)
-Clint
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