"Music does not arise from a forming principle... in it chaos is added to chaos, macrochaos to microchaos"- Karl Wolfskehl
I work for Americorps. We work with kids doing after-school programs and other activities in the community that advance youth empowerment and encourage children to engage their local communities. Every month we organize an event known as a Saturday Seminar, where the high school kids work alongside Americorps members in a training exercise, usually some sort of seminar on leadership skills. A few weeks ago we were doing an exercise on creativity and its value in group settings. We were all assembled in a room and instructed to make our own sounds; it didn't matter what we did, we just had to make our own sound and repeat it. What resulted was exactly Wolfskehl described (a topic I am currently exploring in my paper). Everyone in the room created their own independent sound... yet somehow all these chaotic elements were able to fit together seamlessly... I felt like I had just witnessed a living example of Wolfskehl's descriptions of music. Music does indeed seem to be the result of chaos.
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