Week 3 YOJ Project = Music

Music is the word for inspiration this week.  For fun I looked up the definition in Wikipedia from which I quote:  "The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus ... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be."  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music

Music can be soothing, evoke feelings of nostalgia, joy, sorrow, and can transport one to a different place and time,  and yes, sometimes is painful on the ears depending on who the listener is.

In a younger life I played bass clarinet.  I drew on that  experience when I began thinking about creating this piece of jewelry.  As we learned a new piece it sounded awful !  All the notes swirling around without purpose or rhythm, it sounded like noise initially.  After playing the piece again and again, practicing and refining - the result was magnificent, a perfect blending of instruments and time.

 Here's a picture of the noise:

getting close to finished:

but it needed one more little bead before the final performance: