the obvious

We should not be afraid to start from the obvious. Failure to admit the obvious will lead to serious error. The remainder will unfold if we keep going back to the source, asking questions of it and ourselves. The beginning, then...

Music is first of all sound. This unifies everything. Timbre, sound: the basic expressive medium. Start there, unpack the ingredients, discover what is. No one aspect is superior, privileged to produce meaning. All aspects are dependent upon the others. They interact, they change according to their own nature, and are conditioned by the nature of the others.