Of Rhythm and Beats

“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.” 
― Rumi

Rhythm and beats in music are an interesting concept. A beat is nothing but a combination of two sounds, interspersed with silence. Beats are steady, regularly occurring pulsations, like your heart beat or the ticking of a clock.

So what really is music? To me, it appears to be a structured way of moving from one silence to another.

As the noted Austrian Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would put it " the music is not in the notes, but in the silence  between".

It is precisely this silence between two beats, that fascinates me, when I listen to music.

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In a world of eternal silence

Rhythm enlivens the stillness

The silence remains - abstract and elusive

And really beyond any adjective

The rhythm frames the un-framable

Into a definitive, pulsating  parable

Beyond the realm of boundaries fathomable

Makes the silence all the more adorable

The rhythm heightens the silence between the beats

And gives the discerning mind, the much expected heats

Sometimes the deafening silence does give the freaks

The silence does not change, only our experience of it tweaks

That eternal silence quite often causes a brush with divinity

And attempts to gave a finite boundary to that Infinity.

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