Artistic unconventionality may haave a price in terms of difficult common accessability and initial resistance, but the upside is to value a long term tradition of artistic liberty, heavily influenced and in some ways born out of the Rennaissance period of world history.
What is artistic liberty? It's a type of freedom of expression..of thoughts, ideas, concepts, emotions unbounded by dogma, static rules, and artificial boundaries, both within and without the individual expressing such a freedom. It's a gift of nature, an affirmation of our humanity, and a vehicle of creative expression that serves to communicate the deepest part of ourselves and to help interpret our world aesthetically through an unknown, undiscovered canvas of free ideas and concepts that are "out there", and yet "within us" at the same time. Music as an artform is a medium of this expression among a spectral array of various nonverbal communication forms, yet, to me, embodies a holistic attribute more than other art forms that helpes to synthesize the senses and the spirit. The power of focused sound, positively intended vibrations on the molecular level indeed serve many positive purposes through its recreative invention and various sonic avatars. It it we, the receivers, interpreters, and listeners, through the magic of our neural makeup, who are divinely gifted and bestowed the ability to create, invent, and magnify from this aural sea of sound consciousness that embodies our very existence from conception to death. When I listen to a contextually unconventional music album like VTV, the concept of artistic liberty superimposed on the idea of musical freedom immediately strikes me as a divine gift, that only very few in this world are able to communicate so movingly and convincingly. No doubt, Rahman's music has always been about unbounded freedom from the confines of sound limitation and conventional rules, aided by a myriad of technological tools. It is to the fortune of Rahman that he arrived at musical time when his own creative intentions met technological upswelling at a very important crossroad in a momentous part of musical history. Yes, it was written, and yes, it was intended. I celebrate VTV not only because it pleases me aesthetically and challenges my intellect, stimulating both left and right hemispheres into a holistic phenomenon, but also for what it represents; another fulcrum of artistic liberty and musical freedom from a man, one of the greatest musicians ever, whose creative intentions are only pure and loving. The larger picture, the unbridled privilge of being a witness and recepient to this special expression calls out loud and clear to me and I am listening...listening........listening.........
