The philosopher Plato once said, "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." Music has always been a big part of my life. To create and to perform music connects you to people countries and lifetimes away. It connects you to the people you're playing with, to your audience and to yourself. When I'm happy, when I'm sad, when I'm bored, when I'm stressed, I listen to and I create music.
Platon je jednom prilikom rekao: "Muzika daje dušu univerzumu, krila umu, polet mašti i život svemu." Muzika je oduvek bila veliki deo mog života. Stvaranje i izvođenje muzike spaja vas sa ljudima iz dalekih zemalja i daleke prošlosti. Povezuje vas sa ljudima sa kojim svirate, sa vašom publikom i sa vama samima. Kada sam srećna ili tužna, kada mi je dosadno ili kada sam nervozna, ja slušam i stvaram muziku.
When I was younger, I played piano; later, I took up guitar. And as I started high school, music became a part of my identity. I was in every band, I was involved with every musical fine arts event. Music surrounded me. It made me who I was, and it gave me a place to belong.
Kada sam bila mlađa, svirala sam klavir, a kasnije i gitaru. Kada sam krenula u srednju školu, muzika je postala deo mog identiteta. Bila sam u svakom bendu, učestvovala sam na svakom muzičkom događaju. Muzika me je okruživala. Učinila me je onim što jesam, i pokazala mi mesto gde pripadam.
Now, I've always had this thing with rhythms. I remember being young, I would walk down the hallways of my school and I would tap rhythms to myself on my leg with my hands, or tapping my teeth. It was a nervous habit, and I was always nervous. I think I liked the repetition of the rhythm -- it was calming.
Oduvek su me zanimali ritmovi. Kada sam bila mala, hodala bih hodnicima svoje škole, i udarala ritam rukom po nozi ili bih tapkala zube. To sam radila nesvesno, i uvek sam bila nervozna. Mislim da mi se dopadalo ponavljanje ritma - smirivalo me je.
Then in high school, I started music theory, and it was the best class I've ever taken. We were learning about music -- things I didn't know, like theory and history. It was a class where we basically just listened to a song, talked about what it meant to us and analyzed it, and figured out what made it tick. Every Wednesday, we did something called "rhythmic dictation," and I was pretty good at it. Our teacher would give us an amount of measures and a time signature, and then he would speak a rhythm to us and we would have to write it down with the proper rests and notes. Like this: ta ta tuck-a tuck-a ta, ta tuck-a-tuck-a-tuck-a, tuck-a. And I loved it. The simplicity of the rhythm -- a basic two- to four- measure line -- and yet each of them almost told a story, like they had so much potential, and all you had to do was add a melody.
U srednjoj školi sam krenula na muzičku teoriju, i to je bio najbolji predmet koji sam pohađala. Učili smo o muzici - stvari koje nisam znala kao što su teorija i istorija. To je bio predmet na kom bismo jednostavno odslušali pesmu, razgovarali o njenom značenju, analizirali je, i ispitivali šta je čini uspešnom. Svake srede, imali bismo ritmički diktat, koji sam radila vrlo dobro. Nastavnik bi nam dao broj taktova i ritam, a onda bi nam diktirao ritam a mi bismo zapisivali, sa sve pauzama i notama. Ovako: ta ta taka taka ta ta taka taka taka, taka. Obožavala sam to. Jednostavnost ritma - običan dvočetvrtinski takt - a ipak bi skoro svaki od njih govorio priču, kao da imaju mnogo potencijala, i sve što je trebalo da uradite je da dodate melodiju.
(Guitar)
(Gitara)
Rhythms set a foundation for melodies and harmonies to play on top of. It gives structure and stability. Now, music has these parts -- rhythm, melody and harmony -- just like our lives. Where music has rhythm, we have routines and habits -- things that help us to remember what to do and to stay on track, and to just keep going. And you may not notice it, but it's always there.
Ritam predstavlja temelj preko koga se stvaraju melodije i harmonije. On daje strukturu i stabilnost. Muzika se sastoji iz tri dela - ritma, melodije i harmonije - baš kao i naši životi. Ono što je ritam za muziku, za nas su navike i običaji - stvari koje nam pomažu da zapamtimo naše obaveze i ostanemo u fokusu, da nastavimo da guramo napred. Možda to ne primećujete, ali ona je uvek tu.
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(Gitara)
And it may seem simple, it may seem dull by itself, but it gives tempo and heartbeat. And then things in your life add on to it, giving texture -- that's your friends and your family, and anything that creates a harmonic structure in your life and in your song, like harmonies, cadences and anything that makes it polyphonic. And they create beautiful chords and patterns.
Možda deluje jednostavno, možda deluje glupo samo za sebe, ali nam daje tempo i otkucaj. A onda se stvari iz vašeg života nadovežu, pružajući teksturu - to su vaši prijatelji i porodica, i sve što daje sklad vašem životu i u vašoj pesmi, kao harmonije, kadence bilo šta što stvara polifoniju. Oni stvaraju divne akorde i obrasce.
(Guitar)
(Gitara)
And then there's you. You play on top of everything else, on top of the rhythms and the beat because you're the melody. And things may change and develop, but no matter what we do, we're still the same people. Throughout a song melodies develop, but it's still the same song. No matter what you do, the rhythms are still there: the tempo and the heartbeat ... until I left, and I went to college and everything disappeared.
A onda na red dolazite vi. Vi svirate preko svega, preko ritma i takta jer ste vi melodija. Stvari će se menjati i ići svojim tokom, ali bilo šta da uradimo, mi smo i dalje isti ljudi. Tokom pesme melodije se razvijaju, ali to je i dalje ista pesma. Šta god da uradite, ritmovi su i dalje tu: tempo i otkucaj srca... dok nisam otišla, i krenula na koledž i tada je sve nestalo.
When I first arrived at university, I felt lost. And don't get me wrong -- sometimes I loved it and it was great, but other times, I felt like I had been left alone to fend for myself. It's like I had been taken out of my natural environment, and put somewhere new, where the rhythms and the harmonies and the form had gone away, and it was just me --
Kada sam došla na univerzitet, bila sam izgubljena. Nemojte me pogrešno shvatiti - ponekad mi je bilo divno, ali u nekim trenucima, činilo mi se da sam ostavljena da se borim sama za sebe. Kao da sam izvedena iz svog prirodnog okruženja, i ostavljena na nekom mestu, gde su ritmovi i harmonije, i forma nestali, i ostala sam samo ja -
(Guitar)
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silence and my melody. And even that began to waver, because I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't have any chords to structure myself, or a rhythm or a beat to know the tempo.
tišina i moja melodija. Čak je i to postalo nesigurno, jer nisam znala šta radim. Nisam imala akorde po kojim bih se izgradila, ili ritam ili takt kako bih znala tempo.
(Guitar)
(Gitara)
And then I began to hear all these other sounds.
Tada sam počela da čujem druge zvukove.
(Guitar)
(Gitara)
And they were off-time and off-key. And the more I was around them, the more my melody started to sound like theirs. And slowly I began to lose myself, like I was being washed away. But then the next moment --
Bili su van ritma i van štima. Što sam duže njima bila okružena, to su moje melodije postajale sličnije njihovim. Polako sam počela da gubim sebe, kao da me je nosila struja. Ali već u sledećem trenutku -
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(Gitara)
I could hear it. And I could feel it. And it was me. And I was here. And it was different, but not worse off. Just changed a little.
mogla sam da je čujem. Da je osetim. To sam bila ja. I bila sam tu. Bilo je drugačije, ali ne i gore. Samo malo izmenjeno.
Music is my way of coping with the changes in my life. There's a beautiful connection between music and life. It can bind us to reality at the same time it allows us to escape it. Music is something that lives inside of you. You create it and you're created by it. Our lives are not only conducted by music, they're also composed of it.
Muzika mi pomaže da se nosim sa promenama u svom životu. Postoji divna veza između muzike i života. Ona nas vezuje za realnost i u isto vreme nam dozvoljava da od nje pobegnemo. Muzika je nešto što živi u vama. Vi stvarate nju i ona vas. Naši životi nisu samo vođeni muzikom, već su od nje i sačinjeni.
So this may seem like a bit of a stretch, but hear me out: music is a fundamental part of what we are and of everything around us. Now, music is my passion, but physics also used to be an interest of mine. And the more I learned, the more I saw connections between the two -- especially regarding string theory. I know this is only one of many theories, but it spoke to me. So, one aspect of string theory, at its simplest form, is this: matter is made up of atoms, which are made up of protons and neutrons and electrons, which are made up of quark. And here's where the string part comes in. This quark is supposedly made up of little coiled strings, and it's the vibrations of these strings that make everything what it is.
Ovo može zvučati kao preterivanje, ali obratite pažnju: muzika čini elementarni deo nas samih i svega oko nas. Muzika je moja strast, ali fizika me je takođe interesovala. I što sam više učila, više sam uviđala veze između njih - posebno sa teorijom struna. Znam da je to samo jedna od mnogih teorija, ali ona mi je "legla". Jedan aspekt teorije struna u svojoj najjednostavnijoj formi jeste: materija je sačinjena od atoma, koji su sačinjeni od protona, neutrona i elektrona, koji su sačinjeni od kvarkova. I ovde dolazi deo sa strunama. Kvark je navodno izgrađen od malih uvezanih struna i vibracije ovih struna čine sve onim što jeste.
Michio Kaku once explained this in a lecture called, "The Universe in a Nutshell," where he says, "String theory is the simple idea that the four forces of the universe -- gravity, the electromagnetic force, and the two strong forces -- can be viewed as music. The music of tiny little rubber bands." In this lecture, he goes on to explain physics as the laws of harmony between these strings; chemistry, as the melodies you can play on these strings; and he states that the universe is a "symphony of strings." These strings dictate the universe; they make up everything we see and everything we know. They're musical notes, but they make us what we are and they hold us together. So you see, everything is music.
Mičio Kaku je jednom ovo objasnio u lekciji pod nazivom "Univerzum ukratko", gde kaže: "Teorija struna je jednostavna ideja da četiri sile univerzuma - gravitacija, elektromagnetna sila, i dve jake sile - mogu da se posmatraju kao muzika. Muzika sićušnih gumica." U toj lekciji on objašnjava fiziku kao zakone harmonije između ovih struna; hemiju kao melodije koje možete da svirate na ovim strunama; i tvrdi da je univerzum "simfonija struna." Ove strune diktiraju univerzum; one čine sve što vidimo i sve što poznajemo. One su muzičke note, ali one nas čine onim što smo i drže nas na okupu. Tako da, vidite, sve jeste muzika.
(Guitar)
(Gitara)
When I look at the world, I see music all around us. When I look at myself, I see music. And my life has been defined by music. I found myself through music. Music is everywhere, and it is in everything. And it changes and it builds and it diminishes. But it's always there, supporting us, connecting us to each other and showing us the beauty of the universe.
Kada posmatram svet, vidim muziku svuda oko nas. Kada gledam sebe, vidim muziku. Moj život je definisan muzikom. Pronašla sam se kroz muziku. Muzika je svuda, ona je u svemu. Menja se i gradi i nestaje. Ali ona je uvek tu. pomaže nam, spaja nas jedne sa drugima i pokazuje nam lepotu univerzuma.
So if you ever feel lost, stop and listen for your song.
Ako se ikada osetite izgubljeno, zastanite i oslušnite vašu pesmu.
Thank you.
Hvala vam.
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