Languages of Art and Music

For The Institute Of Contemporary And Emerging Worship Studies, St.Stephen’s University, Essentials Red Online Course with Dan Wilt.

Week Four and we’re finally looking at MUSIC. Well that’s what i was thinking when i looked at the course layout at the start, but i have really enjoyed the angle this course has on things. It has been a rich journey through the languages of worship and the stories entail.

Music is something i do love and are rather passionate about. however i have come to a realisation that as much as i am a musician (didn’t say i was a good one) i think i just like things that capture my imagination and engage my senses. I am all about aesthetics, i’m all about things that speak beyond words, i think i may just appreciate art. It’s probably not something i would have said of myself a while back, but truly my eyes and ears love things that look and sound good.

Civil Engineering has a certain place in my heart, i once studied it, once practiced and look back that time rather fondly. I have let it go now, i have said good bye to a career in civil but man do i still appreciate the art of design and construction!! There is nothing like a bridge or highway to get me inspired; weird aye!

Beauty exists in so many places, art exists everywhere, and i have begun to see it in places i once never thought to look. Art is not just something hanging in a snobby gallery down town, it is the expression of people all around through an array of media, and God is speaking through it! There are messages to be heard, questions to be explored, scenes to be transported to, and within the conversations there are seams of redemption as artist explore a God who intervened in the human condition.

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