The Great Wall of China is one of the Wonders of the World, one of the great triumphs of human engineering and determination. Some great wonders, like the stars, are simply there for us to view, but some marvels are there because we choose to make them happen.
How have you participated in creating something wondrous?
I’ve play music with other people before. With the help of air and some bits of metal, wood, and plastic, we resurrected art hundreds of years old.
Martin, it seems that both of us see the value of re-using old things; your combination of old scraps and new music sounds intriguing. I am continuing to save onion skins since they have such lovely colors and shine to them; my idea is to use them for a collage some day soon.
Maybe I was being too poetic to be clear: we were using standard musical instruments, most of which were probably fairly new. It just amazes me that one can take a hunk of metal or piece of wood, shape it a bit, blow into it, and create music. It also amazes me that music is both one of the most time-bound arts, disappearing as soon as the piece is over, and one of the most lasting, with people still playing music that is hundreds – sometimes even thousands – of years old.
I do reuse old things, though 🙂
Thanks, Martin for the clarification re instruments. Even though you use more current standard ones, think of the richness of sound of the old Stradivarius violins. As you indicate, old doesn’t mean useless, nor is the music played on them. Right you are!
I’ve been an artist painter at various times of my life. I hold onto a lot of them, thinking “Well, is this one any good?” Sometimes, when I look at it later or prepare it for a show and someone buys it, I think “Yes, that one is really GOOD”! Then I am proud of my creativity.