WRITTEN LANGUAGE IN THE MUSICAL BORDERLAND BETWEEN ILLUSION AND REALITY

By Peter Danstrup (former employee

Music has its own language, its own channels of communication. Words are not therefore a necessary helping hand for an art form that does not express itself in explicit terms, but written language can attempt to share an experience, complement an expression, or contribute to an image. Descriptions of, reflections on and theories of music all revolve around an important core, which we know is there, but about which it can be difficult to say anything simple and sensible. One reason might be the nature of music itself, while another could be the volatility of the concept of art and the mystical self-delusion of the experience. It is this search for something that we know is there, but which we cannot see, that is so fascinating.

Do words about music lie somewhere between the expression of the music and the receiver's experience?
We will in any case be obliged to relax the requirements of strictly objective research slightly, as here we are entering the world of illusion, and thus imprecision.
What I would like to investigate is whether we are thereby also entering the world of art; whether art and illusion are next-door neighbours.