Describing Purple from Weird. by Coda The Dragon

Music is an odd thing isn’t it? Equal parts art, performance, and language. Of course, the art form is the most commonly praised, but seldom to people talk about music being a language. The truth is that music is the language of emotion. Now that might look good on a poster, but what does it really mean?

Well friends, I have a theory. And that is that our definition of what a language is, is far too narrow to account for the truth of what we see in front of us.

Now, to demonstrate this, I’d like to try an experiment. I want all of you to imagine the color purple. See it in your mind’s eye, you can picture it clearly, right? Well then, if you can see it so clearly, why don’t you try to describe it in words to someone who is blind.

As I’m sure you just discovered, you have no clue how to do this. It’s impossible to do adequately in language. So, how do we do it? How do we describe purple?

I believe that this is the kind of language music is. Not a language of description, but wanna feeling, of emotion. Oh way to communicate emotions and abstract ideas in a way that people can understand, and empathize with.

So let’s try it, shall we? Let’s try to describe purple. Are you ready?

You see, purple is…

• Electronic
• House
• Spoken Word
• ambient
• electronica
• experimental electronic
• guitar
• lyrics
• synth
• synthpop
• Maryland