Lights from Music

During my classes I accept the music and let it affect my whole personality, my body, my soul and my spirit without measuring, taking precautions or hesitating. Only this encounter in perfect freedom may bring about the desire and possibilities of self-expression, through movements, gestures, mimicking, facial expressions, in short, through everything at my disposal.

Lights from Music

Excerpt from the Maiden Pinks class 15 November 1988

Music: J. S. Bach: Fugue in E minor from the 1st volume of Wohltemperiertes Klavier

Fruzsina: We were looking for lights in the earth, then we threw them up to the sky, and they became stars that we could admire.

Villő: We gathered all the lights on earth, shaped them, and then threw them up to the sky.

How did you shape the lights?

Villő: Delicately, with our hands, as if one were making a very small marble.

What does it feel like to have light in your hands?

Villő: It was warm

What about you, Fruzsi?

Fruzsi: It is smooth and beautiful.

Viktória: It is easy and warm.

And did you see them when you were throwing them up to the sky?

Villő: A little bit. We threw them very quickly when we were throwing them, and we could not really see them, only when they were finally up there, could we see them. 

Villő, how were these lights that you were throwing born to the music?

Villő: How? I don’t really know. It was as if we were looking for something on the earth and we were rummaging. Then we showed each other what was found and threw them from one hand to another and that is how the lights came into being.

But how could lights appear there? Did it just appear or did it roll along or did it scintillate?

Villő: There was light. You can understand this figuratively, but you can also understand it as candlelight or sunlight. 

How can you understand light figuratively?

Villő: You can understand it as good qualities.

For example?

Villő: Modesty

Can you list some other good qualities?

Fruzsina: Love, kindness.

I was thinking about whether the sounds could get into light? Can the sounds get into light or is it the other way around: lights get into sounds?

Villő: I think light gets into sounds, sounds become bright depending on how you play them and how you love them.