The Meaning of Music

In pop concerts rock concerts a lot of that additional material has been put back in you know in the form of light show and sometimes in more dramatic forms than that but the light show I suppose is as close as you can get to representing what music is doing. Ken Kesey in his band of Mary Pranksters first started to experiment with electronic lighting and that sort of thing in California when they were experimenting with LSD back in the 60s. So okay so let's circle around the musical element a bit more and I mean you've thought a lot about this and you also write poetry because we never did finish that discussion about the cataclysmic restructuring of musical forms up into the modern period