We feel music is a great medium to push the 'payload'. People like Bob Dylan, Niel Young, Tracy Chapman, Indian Ocean, Lynyrd Skynryd, Pink Floyd are a great example of using music for great purpose. Music is a great ice-breaker. It is a great, inoffensive (if rightly used) way to say meaningful and sensible things :)
Watch this YouTube Video or read on further below to know more about Music for Meaning.
The Music for Meaning concept has two major components:
1) Music for Meaning 'Street Jams'
OK. Street jams are nothing but informal gatherings (nobody climbing on a stage or anything) at everyday 'street locations' (without disrupting the normal flow of life), where we get together to sing and play using unplugged instruments, singing songs which have a positive feel and create a nice, healthy environment for subsequent, sensible interactions and discussions among people.
Street jams are not about musical wizardry, nor are they limited in terms of styles, genres or languages. They are more about spontaneous, freaky, live jamming!
We feel positive social gatherings create a sense of community and are highly relaxing and enjoyable.
2) An Online (Internet) based discussion forum
This is like a discussion board where people can have specific conversations/ discussions, about great songs and everyone's own interpretation of its implications and introducing/ exchanging more great songs to each other, including original compositions of the contributors.
We do that on our facebook page: Facebook.com/music4meaning
Welcome! And hope you like the concept and help it grow! I feel we'd be much better off having a nice time like this than showing off expensive cars to each other which guzzle petrol!
If you'd like to participate in the jam, or simply let your opinion be known, the best way is to connect to the Facebook Page. That is where the action is! You may also send an email to: team@musicformeaning.org or just leave a comment in the section below.
Watch this YouTube Video or read on further below to know more about Music for Meaning.
The Music for Meaning concept has two major components:
1) Music for Meaning 'Street Jams'
OK. Street jams are nothing but informal gatherings (nobody climbing on a stage or anything) at everyday 'street locations' (without disrupting the normal flow of life), where we get together to sing and play using unplugged instruments, singing songs which have a positive feel and create a nice, healthy environment for subsequent, sensible interactions and discussions among people.
Street jams are not about musical wizardry, nor are they limited in terms of styles, genres or languages. They are more about spontaneous, freaky, live jamming!
We feel positive social gatherings create a sense of community and are highly relaxing and enjoyable.
2) An Online (Internet) based discussion forum
This is like a discussion board where people can have specific conversations/ discussions, about great songs and everyone's own interpretation of its implications and introducing/ exchanging more great songs to each other, including original compositions of the contributors.
We do that on our facebook page: Facebook.com/music4meaning
Welcome! And hope you like the concept and help it grow! I feel we'd be much better off having a nice time like this than showing off expensive cars to each other which guzzle petrol!
If you'd like to participate in the jam, or simply let your opinion be known, the best way is to connect to the Facebook Page. That is where the action is! You may also send an email to: team@musicformeaning.org or just leave a comment in the section below.
27 comments:
Hey suraj, I would love to join you guys....My name is Vijeeth and you can call me on 9920054323....
Looking forward for a reply
CHEERS!!!
A small instance can change your life, a small thought can change the way you think, a small advice can show you a whole new meaning towards life, a small step can change your direction... we hear this too often, everytime here and there... but, blinded by our so called "stop the philosophy" attitude, we just throw it off in some corner of our mind, or probably not even there... but to think about it, isnt this soo much true... at times, small things change the very thought, course of life, and then, suddenly its not small any more...
Me too, would usually let go off any such philosophical statement told to me... but i guess this instance has really made me remember and understand the depth behind it.. Nevertheless, i still believe, if it would not have been for something i am very passionate about.. i wouldnt have paid any heed to it... but there is was, in front of me... something i live for, something that resides in my blood... and that is where i understood... it is soo very true...
Music... i would do anything and everything when it comes to it... As Alan Parsons would say, "We are two of a kind: Silence and I"... and then there would be me... "We are two of a kind: Music and I"... always wished and wanted to make it big in music.. improve on my vocals, learn guitaring and maybe join some band one day... but what about the real meaning of music... i always believed that music was the best thing, the only one perhaps that could make you cry when you are alone.. laugh when you never even want to... love with your soul... and maybe even remove all your hatred... but this one small meeting (not small any more) gave me a whole new direction...
There i was, sitting on the minute grains of sand, clear peaceful sky and the vast Juhu beach that lay ahead of me... and next to me was the person who had called me there... hats off to him for ever bringing me here... 'Suraj', thats what he calls himself... met him through orkut and suddenly felt me moving towards my dream... atleast a step... he and a couple of his friends jam at various locations in Bombay, Band Stand being the most common one... anywhere, where they find the common man... who for some time might want to forget all his pains, sorrows and enjoy the moment... and I pro-actively joined them... So, on Friday, the Good-friday on the 6th of April of the year 2007, i went for my first jam ever... not a Jam the way we all know it... but something so common, so simple... yet so very beautiful that it would outbeat any of the planned jamming events one might have seen... that day, it was only him and me, the other people who usually do jam along somehow could not show up...
and then it all began... surrounded by a group of people we began to sing... suraj was bringing more life to the environment with his gat... and never before had things been so beautiful... felt as if music suddenly got a whole new meaning.... Yes, Music for meaning.. thats what even Suraj calls it... we could see it in the eyes of everyone around us.. average people, the very average of mumbai who live their lives probably in pursuit of the real happiness... I could see the happiness, the beauty and the fulfillment that our simple music gave to these people... A simple guy form Colkatta, a small boy selling popcorn... and the numerous others who wanted to sing... enjoy not bothered by anyone and anything at that moment... wanting to share all their happiness, sorrows... laugh, cry... talk to us like they have known us for ages...we all felt one... Towards the end, came a group of punjabi uncles, their first visit ever to Mumbai.. all the way from Punjab... they believed they had never seen something so beautiful... all ready to sing with us... and we all sang together, not only our usual songs.. but something that they wanted to... Bhajans... Gazals... ones i had never heard before... full with meaning.... all again we were all one....
There we were... simple, ordinary guys... singing on a vast beach... along with other simple people.... all together.. giving a new meaning to music.. a new meaning to life... music for a cause... music to bring one and all together... music to feel one.. and then i realized what all could music do... as suraj said... this is what differentiates the so called planned, popular jams from the ones that we had... completely spontaneous.. and something that was making someone smile... suraj has brought this change in me... his every word... his thoughts on life and music... how the world is all moving towards pure mockery of music.... how meaningful music is being lost in the transit... what wonders can music do... and why is it not being utilized for what it should be... what all have i been missing in life... what all would i have missed if not for this evening....
finally, coming back to where i started.... a small instance... yes this is the one i was referring to... has really made a huge impact... music or life as a whole for me is for meaning now... might not seem like anything big or drastic... but is bigger than the biggest moments of life... for it has made me change the way to look at life... made me think where is the world heading... can i do anything much against it... maybe not... but atleast in myself... i can bring a whole lot of a difference.... and thats what matters the most... maybe this is what actually differentiates suraj from all the other people i have met... his way of making a difference.. for those people on Juhu beach... for music.... for me.. and most important....for himself!
What can I say..You write Sooo beautifully Vijeeth...I say many thanks..but I know we are relayers..Instruments..The moment we kill the 'I' ..the consious hold on oursleves, we know we will do what we are supposed to be doing..realizing our goals and ourselves. Welcome to the Jams! Welcome aboard..!
I participated in the JAM yesterday and it is an extraordinary experience - met people from UP, Pune with their Music. We were connected even before we met and that was very powerful. We already had a tool common to us - the MUSIC of life. I am there tomorrow (Sunday) and I am bringing my friends who are very excited to be JAMMING..!!
hi friends i attended your session at bandra on 10/06/2007 was wonderful keep it up guys i am an amatuer poet and a story writer my name is sunil 9223336527 my blog is storyandpoetry.blogspot.com
ey ther...i was ther at bandstand this sunday and i think it's a truly anamazing thing u guys hav started....its was soo awesome to b der,,, nt knowin any1 bt still feeling connected thru MUSIC...turly it has no boundries!!! i dnt hav any extraordinary talent bt m a gr8 bathroom singer...wld love to know wer u guys are jammin up nxt sunday...9833266993
well hi.. this is Aakanksha.
i was one of d ppl at d crowd today watchin u all perform.. it was almost like you'll brought the old boring bandstand to life! it feels very nice to know that such a unique movement exists.
keep it up guys... you'll have touched atleast my heart in a very special way... i was smiling all the way back home!
and btw.. tarun.. thank you for the special mention. never got to thank you in the end.
take care and best of luck..
plz lemme know if i can help your movement in anyway.. am willing to help in whichever way i can except the fact that i can't sing fer nuts! ;)
thank you all fer a great evening.
it indeed left a very lasting impression.
Cheers.
(agupta50@gmail.com)
i ve read the blog-n am deeply touched tht suchlike exists...nice to know-thought i would leave a poem by a person who u may also like v much-
Please Call Me by My True Names
I have a poem for you. This poem is about three of us.
The first is a twelve-year-old girl, one of the boat
people crossing the Gulf of Siam. She was raped by a
sea pirate, and after that she threw herself into the
sea. The second person is the sea pirate, who was born
in a remote village in Thailand. And the third person
is me. I was very angry, of course. But I could not take
sides against the sea pirate. If I could have, it would
have been easier, but I couldn't. I realized that if I
had been born in his village and had lived a similar life
- economic, educational, and so on - it is likely that I
would now be that sea pirate. So it is not easy to take
sides. Out of suffering, I wrote this poem. It is called
"Please Call Me by My True Names," because I have many names,
and when you call me by any of them, I have to say, "Yes."
Don't say that I will depart tomorrow --
even today I am still arriving.
Look deeply: every second I am arriving
to be a bud on a Spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
to fear and to hope.
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death
of all that is alive.
I am the mayfly metamorphosing
on the surface of the river.
And I am the bird
that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.
I am the frog swimming happily
in the clear water of a pond.
And I am the grass-snake
that silently feeds itself on the frog.
I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks.
And I am the arms merchant,
selling deadly weapons to Uganda.
I am the twelve-year-old girl,
refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean
after being raped by a sea pirate.
And I am the pirate,
my heart not yet capable
of seeing and loving.
I am a member of the politburo,
with plenty of power in my hands.
And I am the man who has to pay
his "debt of blood" to my people
dying slowly in a forced-labor camp.
My joy is like Spring, so warm
it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth.
My pain is like a river of tears,
so vast it fills the four oceans.
Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and my laughter at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart
can be left open,
the door of compassion.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
Hey Sooraj,
Where are you man?Its been long time.Hope you remember me..!I want to catch up with you guys again.Please give me your contact number and how is Poonam.
Best Regards,
Siddharth
PCS
HEY GUYS
THIS IS TRUPTI.. IT WAS JUST HALF N HR BACK I WAS ON BANDSTAND..SITTING IN FRONT OF U PPL.IT WAS A MEMORABLE DAY ON BANDSTAND..I REALLY LIKED UR CONCEPT AND REALLY APPRECIATE UR BELIEF THAT MUSIC CAN BRING THE WORLD TOGETHER AND MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE.
TODAY I WAS ON BANDSTAND WITH ALL MY WORRIES TENSION AND QUESTIONS.. BUT THANKU SOO MUCH U SOLVED EVERTHI IN JUST FEW HRS..
IT WAS A WONDERFUL EVENING.. U PPL WERE JUST MINDBLOWING.
I WOULD LOVE TO B A PART OF UR TEAM..
THE MAIN THING I LIKED ABOUT U IS THE VEHICLE U PPL R DRIVING FOR UR JOURNEY TOWARDS TOGETHERNESS IS MUSIC BUT U DONT WANT THE PASSENGERS OR THE DRIVERS TO B A VERY GOOD SINGERS..
HATS OF TO U GUYS..
I M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO JOIN U PPL.
THANKU VERY MUCH FOR TODAYS GREAT AND A FABULOUS EVENING
LOOKING FORWARD FOR UR REPLY
U GUYS ROCK..
U CAN MAIL ME ON :TRUPTIUNKNOWN@GMAIL.COM
THANKU
Hey Suraj,
See you this Sunday at 6.30 pm(Bandra Bandstand?) I basically like the concept and will contribute in a way that suits my sensibilities. I love music and believe it is the universal language !!
See you along the way and lets travel a bit together and lets make a difference!
Cheers!
Ravi Rao
9323062020
Hey Suraj,
See you this Sunday at 6.30 pm(Bandra Bandstand?) I basically like the concept and will contribute in a way that suits my sensibilities. I love music and believe it is the universal language !!
See you along the way and lets travel a bit together and lets make a difference!
Cheers!
Ravi Rao
9323062020
Hey Suraj,
See you this Sunday at 6.30 pm(Bandra Bandstand?) I basically like the concept and will contribute in a way that suits my sensibilities. I love music and believe it is the universal language !!
See you along the way and lets travel a bit together and lets make a difference!
Cheers!
Ravi Rao
9323062020
Dear Suraj,
I like what is see on your site and will be there this Sunday at Bandra Bandstand at 6.30.
Looking forward to be part of your activity and from what I think you are onto a great thing with Music......
Music is a universal Language and love is the key...
To peace and understanding and living in harmony...
So I believe in Music , I believe in Love.
Integrity above all else!!
Cheers
Ravi Rao
9323062020
hiii Suraj
i m shweta from Panipat.
on 27th of march ur group performed at Govt Poly. For Women Faridabad.I m a student of that coll of I.T (final year). i want to be a part of ur group.if u r interested for me to join ur group then plzz reply. my id is
shweta.malhotra89@gmail.com
i enjoyed ur performance very well.and i'll like to be part of that.
u guys are really rocking
thanks
take care
god bless u
shweta
hiii Suraj
i m sonia from Faridabad.
on 27th of march ur group performed at Govt Poly. For Women Faridabad.I m a student of that coll of comp. (second year). i want to be a part of ur group.if u r interested for me to join ur group then plzz reply. my id is
sanjana0112@gmail.com
i enjoyed ur performance very well.and i'll like to be part of that.
u guys are really rocking
thanks
take care
god bless u
sonia
Hiii....
I heared ur music on 12 Oct. at Banstand....!!! and realy liked it and I appreciate ur noble couse behind this music..!!!
I would also like 2 join u people.
All the Best...!!!!!!! MFM
Bye.
Hi suraj,
hi suraj,
yesterday 12 oct 2008 i was at bandstand i enjoyed a lot with u people and i relly feel great to join u people because ur concept to gather people for good reason is really amazing and soooooo great
i will join ur jam on next sundays i wiil meet u people
Great idea.///////////
HELLO everyone
this is MoNIKA AND u can spot me at BandStand as MFM every sunday...
to all ur queries,am replying on behalf os Suraj as he is kinda bsy these days......
For MFM, u people dont have to do ane thing for joining the jam but just be there, join with us- WE are an evergrowing jam band, just be there , let out ur voice and speak up on issues that should make a difference to our society, also keeping in mind that we are there to spread smiles among people, to trust the humanity and be there as one community.
MFM doesnt belong to any religion, caste or city but to Music where we want to reach out to everyone with the whole soul of Music,where everyone comes because they are given a voice to speak, lend a hand to stand and raise your voice to what an individual is afraid to...
so let us join hands in the true spirit and spread sniles far and wide..
cheers
Monika
Hi iam junaid and taufik we are also enjoying bandstand it is rock u people doing fabules pls attentce evering it is humble request iam rt now mumbai but iam iam out of country any let see
nice pls come sundays it is humble request
Hi guys iam junaid from chennai right now iam mumbai soon iam going to abord one or two week realy u people doing great job really fabules good admisfire really marvales really good today beside i set u today but i didnt talk wiht u pls guys i want every one pls give me chance i want talk tarun and monika and etc last cpl of week i come and visit next i am leaveing will u pls chat wiht me if u time i will give my number email id if u need kind help i will be here u iam small man heart is very good specaily fablus monika she is good cheer she is rock ok than all the best
mobile09791628529
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hey guys, awesome, beautiful, amazing, lovely, you guys moved us slowly and steadily...
Mast maza maadi, auda, mudu hadu gudu...
Mast tha bey!
Hi guys iam junaid from saudi right now all of wishes how is going programe band stand i miss u all of them
special wishes monika sister
k.junaid ahmed
junead_ahmed@yahoo.com
mobile00966-5668921272
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