28.4.2010 Let there be music… And there was Radio RAAF Butterworth! Just like Aum is the basis of all sounds, music must be the precursor of all forms of speech. Before we learn to speak, we make sounds. Mix it up with the correct musical instruments, and you will have something which is heavenly music is one’s ears. Of course, this is very subjective, just like one of my friends once said, “Music was born in India, grew up in Europe and died in China.” He was obviously referring to clanging cymbals of traditional Chinese opera music. Ignorance is bliss. Just like my mother would not appreciate Led Zeppelin, Queen and Bon Jovi, one man’s music may be another man’s migraine. My sisters and I grew up being exposed mainly to Indian cinema music since childhood. Piped-in music from the ever playing transistor radio forms like a background musical score in our everyday life. Appa would tune in to the Short Wave (SW) transmissions from Radio Malaysia Tamil, and Singapore Radio Tamil...
It is all Mimesis