Drew is a music teacher at the International School in Tunis in Northern Africa. With a Master's in Ethnomusicology, Drew is able to consider music as an art form within and across cultures, considering the harmonious interplay of patterns and the musicality of intelligibility. We hear Drew's life story and then consider various aspects of music as communication, music as an aesthetic form and music as communitas and worship.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:13 Drew's Story 14:20 Arriving in North Africa, Master's in Ethnomusicology
15:45 What drew him to The Meaning Code?
18:30 Using music as a bridge to meaning
20:25 Correspondence between color theory and music theory
27:00 Sound colored by overtones
33:58 Is birdsong strictly just communication or is it an aesthetic experience for the birds as well as for humans?
42:00 Visual arts and music as two different dimensions
47:00 Music, timelessness, unity and multiplicity
54:30 Atomization of modern society and musical silos
58:45 Deeper into the Weeds conversation of Peterson, Vervaeke and Pageau The musicality of intelligibility. "Music is the most representational of art forms." Jordan Peterson
1:02:31 Or, is music the most abstract?
1:07:45 Unity in music, plus multiplicity, diversity, variety
1:09:00 Scale is essential
1:10:45 Pageau, "Consciousness is a pattern perceiving patterns."
1:21:15 What songs does Drew use when leading worship?
1:23:00 Outro
Mentions: Stefan Alexander, The Jazz of Physics
Robin Sylvan: The Traces of the Spirit
Victor Turner: The Ritual Process
Songs:
Christ is Enough
There is No Other Name
Give me Faith
10,000 Reasons
Oceans
