Amalia Zeichnerin

I often cry these days. No, it's not a depression, it's the events happening globally.

Today, I have seen a short video of an Iranian music teacher who sits in the ruins of his music school, with his instrument, saying, "I don't want the last sound coming from my destroyed music school to be bombs and missiles."

He then starts to play his instrument. Here is his video.
https://imginn.com/p/DW1vS4wiRf7/

#music #Iran

Apr 8 at 10:02amWeb
Show threadThierna1d ago

@amalia12 thanks for sharing.
It's nice to see others also trying to keep up their empathy.

I cried when going to a protest because people where together for a good cause. And I grieved the future that we could have had if only we were at the type of protest that gets listened to.

Show threadAmalia Zeichnerin1d ago

@thierna

I don't always cry because I am sad. I also cry in a positive way, for instance when I see people's solidarity for a good cause, like your example with the protest. Because this moves me and it gives me hope.

Show threadSea of approval1d ago
@amalia12 it breaks my heart too. :/
Show threadAmalia Zeichnerin1d ago
@deepsy
It does not only break my heart. For me, there is more to it. I think it is an incredible brave and rebellious thing to do, to keep doing what you love doing (in this case, playing music) amidst ruins and destruction.
As if he would say, "Fuck these war mongers, I won't let them take my music from me."
There is a Spanish proverb which goes, "Nobody can take away from me what I have danced." So that's art as a form of rebellion, in my eyes.
Show threadSea of approval1d ago
@amalia12 that's exactly what breaks my heart because as someone that has survived years of trauma myself - by creating art and music - I understand that if creating art equals living, these people have no other options left. It is indeed a rebellious act somehow, but without the noble undertone that social media often adds to it. Continuing art as an artist in war is refusing to die, as rebellious just as continuing to eat and breathe would be.
Show threadAmalia Zeichnerin1d ago
@deepsy Yes, exactly this.
Show threadSharon McCarthy1d ago
@amalia12 Yes. These are the weeping days
Show thread@[email protected]1d ago

@amalia12 thanks for the post, I think I found the source via ABC News

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Show threadderptron1d ago

@amalia12 I hope he tries again when sanity is restored.

Is he playing a traditional piece or was he just jamming? I love that scale.

Show threadAmalia Zeichnerin1d ago
@crazyeddie Sorry, I don't know. I am not familiar with Iranian music, or with this instrument.
Show threadConny Nasch1d ago
@amalia12 I cried 😭
Show threadkikebenlloch1d ago
@amalia12 Thanks for sharing.