Larry Sider & Diane Freeman
// Director & Project ProducerLARRY SIDER & DIANE FREEMAN are Director and Project Producer at the School of Sound in London, England. Their book “Soundscape: The School Of Sound Lectures 1998-2001” (2003) is available from Wallflower Press. Larry Sider has over twenty-five years experience working with animations, documentary, and fiction film. He regularly gives seminars on post-production editing, sound for television and film professionals, and teaches at various film schools. Larry Sider is also co-editor of The Soundtrack Journal. Diane Freeman is a former television producer working on documentary and animation productions. She now works mainly in training, and has also contributed articles to various journals.
Website: www.schoolofsound.co.uk
Photo: Larry Sider
Interview:
“The one belief that started this is that vibration is creation and the whole universe is produced by sound, by the word, as it is said in the Bible. First was sound and then was light. Herein lies the thought of the mystics that one may understand vibrations in two directions; when audible they become intelligible, and when they take form they become visible.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan, “The Mysticism Of Sound” (2005, Ekstasis Editions)
We take this statement by the great Sufi singer and teacher to be the basis of the significance of music and spirituality. Music is a particular form of sound; of vibrations organized into specific patterns. Music is also a universal language that evokes a variety of emotional responses. Not all music can be classified as spiritual, but some music can open our hearts to everyone and everything around us, and in that sense we can consider it to be spiritual. Music is also a pattern of sound and silence, and it is in silence that we can often best appreciate our connection to the whole.
“Music can open our hearts to everyone and everything around us, and in that sense we can consider it to be spiritual.”
– Larry Sider & Diane Freeman, editors of “Soundscape: The School Of Sound Lectures 1998-2001”
