David S. Ware
// composer & saxophonistDAVID S. WARE is a jazz composer and saxophonist from Plainfield, New Jersey. David S. Ware Quartet’s album “Cryptology” (1994) is available from Homestead Records, “Wisdom Of Uncertainty” (1997), and “Corridors & Parallels” (2001) are both available from Aum Fidelity, “Go See The World” (1998), and “Surrendered” (2000) are both available from Sony Music, “Renunciation” (2007) is available from Aum Fidelity, and the David S. Ware String Ensemble’s “Threads” (2003) is available from Thirsty Ear Recordings. He has also recorded albums with Andrew Cyrille and Cecil Taylor, and the David S. Ware Quartet has featured guitarist Joe Morris, pianist Matthew Shipp, double bassist William Parker, and drummers Guillermo E. Brown, Marc Edwards, Susie Ibarra, Warren Smith, and Whit Dickey.
Website: www.davidsware.com
Photo: David Katzenstein / DavidSWare.com
Interview:
Music has the ability to atune man to the highest purpose of nature and can bring us into awareness of spirituality. Music has its own realm, and its own reality. I had an experience of hearing music within myself. It was like hearing all music at the same time, like a natural reservoir of music, accompanied by colour, it was like a mass of music. In that moment I realized where musical ideas come from. This might be what some call the music of the spheres, the cosmos playing its own symphony. The outer manifestations of music are the rhythmic cycles in nature. As individuals we have night and day, we have life and death, we have the seasons of nature, spring, winter, summer, and fall. The relationship of the heavenly bodies to earth and the planets in the solar system is like a musical scale. They support one another in their movements, and their gravitational influences upon one another is perfect. Beyond the solar system, you have “galactic harmony” where the galaxies also have a certain gravitational influence upon one another. In the music that we play on earth, there is always a cosmic component to it. If we want to create a good piece of music, in that piece of music there has to be some intelligence with all the parts of the composition supporting one another. This reflects the cosmic music because as here on earth we think of music strictly in terms of playing an instrument, but in reality, the entire cosmos is a symphony. The destiny of humanity is concealed in the cycles of nature. These cycles spend hundreds of thousands, millions, and even trillions of human years going from very materialistic ages to very spiritualized ages, from extreme disorder (Kaliyuga) to perfect order (Satyuga). As earth moves through the galaxy, these ages change. The closer earth moves to the center of the galaxy, the more humanity becomes spiritualized. As two musicians respond to one another, likewise the universe responds to the actions of humanity. We are responsible for what comes to us.
“Music has its own realm, and its own reality.”
– David S. Ware, composer and saxophonist
