Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Cigarette - Music - Flow


This thought just came to me.. when i was involved in a chat with my colleagues about the nature and the kind of flows that exists in nature that slowly ingresses into a thought or an idea of my own about the relation between forms of flow and music. Though its my pure inane idea to relate these 2 different forms with cigarette , metaphysically its true so I am trying to relate all three things in jumbled way. :)

At first you take the Basic flow, the laminar flow, imagine you are a smoker taking that first puff from the cigarette that you light in a empty single room, with no disturbance initially there is no chaos, no disturbance, nothing but the streamlines that pass on from the lit area of the cigarette to the 1/4th the distance ( This is your area of concern) that it has to travel further to hit the roof. still you see no chaos, no disturbance in the linearity of its path, it goes as if it is sedated, real slow. Now you breathe out the first burst of smoke that you took in. and again watch the magic of seeded particles of your cigarette's smoke trying to move further in a real slow motion. And now you're bored you start to play old slow instrumental song or a real slow song as from "righteous brothers" or a some music that close to silence from the rack next to you. Now you go back to see the thing you started earlier, You stare at the streamlines again in the smoke you see nothing and you are listening to the song and you just started to play and slowly you start to see The stream lines is following a particular pattern.. The same sedated pattern in which it was earlier cep't for the song that has joined in to it. Now the streamlines start to move slothful slow according to the intonations of the song.. as if it was related to each other.. Thats it laminar flow for you .. which is the Slowest kind of music that you can hear to.. You just listen that you don't relate. You can almost predict whats gonna happen next, the intonation and the pattern as a simple harmonic motion.

Your cigarette is 1/4th finished and now, you long to hear something that relates to you, a line or an expression along with that music in the background to feel you are in it with everything. Now, what made you to choose this is known( Boredom, in search of something new to make it more interesting) This is Transition flow.. here you are going into a phase of partial anonymity. Your definition here is little obscure though you are defined in a certain words, it is always ambiguous. This region of the cigarette is from that end portion of laminar flow to the 6/10th the portion of the cigarette stick that you hold!!! You play Pink floyd, Nirvana, Doors, and lots, !! very line that you hear is something that you can relate to not entirely but just. and every time you hear, you can interpret different things you're never sure of what he/she is trying to tell or relate. Just like the flow that ends steady state and begins with a small disturbance (Disturbance isn't the right word. But, its the first that comes to my mind). Even this flow from the smoke that you take that passes through the wind pipe and the trachea and to the bronchi back and forth is also transitional flow. You know but still you don't know!!! You try to follow a pattern but it changes in that period where you think you know it. Here from this obscure idea and confusion you're led into another world, of utter chaos, disarray and havoc. Now what lead to this is totally unknown maybe because of madness and sheer excitement.

From partial anonymity to utter disorderliness is what brings us to the portion of smoke that is at the top most level of visibility. Everything follows a different path with no linearity. This Turbulence here is a phase that has been started due to chaos and confusion and here come Metal and its genre. Its never really about the lyrics and the riffs of guitars here are are in an unknown territory still you try to find some orderliness but in vain.. you enjoy the every moment of it. The end of the transition is about bands like Nirvana, Pixies, Mud honey, pearl jam, audioslave and finally it transcends to bands like megadeth, GNR, metallica(I hate that band and dunno why) , cradle of filth, slayer, COB, Gorgoth, Burzum and a million more bands of this order. You ain't know nothing but you are still in it and enjoying the madness and the chaos. But we have to know all our real discoveries are from madness and confusion. :) And comes a point where you are so addicted to this madness you live in it!! But in actual terms nobody knows what turbulence and still you dare to decipher it again and again... Its just like you are trying to find out some thing in outer boundaries of infinity!!!
Then this havoc finally ends up and disappears to the vast world and you die a death with all your bronchi and trachea filled with nicotine tar to a level where sometimes you choke yourself to million displays of turbulence (Coughing)LOL :D. Just like some black metal band in norway tried to burn down the ancient churches just because they changed the history of Christianity .

PS:About the previous last sentence
NEVERMIND!!! :|

3 comments:

My Polite Observations said...

This article takes about 3 minutes to read, and succeeds in creating TURBULANCE in the reader's (me) mind!
Article is humorous, but issue is serious! :)

Where is my mind? said...

oH tHANKS FOR UR POLITE oBSERVATIONS!!! lmao!!!

Niharika said...

interesting thought process...
do you have a science background by any chance?