music's immunity to limitations

the following is from an email of mine, i figured i would include it in the blog.

regarding concerts, live music and all that, i get a huge pleasure out of supporting the artist in what seems a very direct way. and a very personal way, especially with smaller groups like mdd where you can talk with them, they obviously see your face in the crowd, etc. and additionally it is amazing watching the expressions of the musicians - it really gives you a glimpse of how they feel about their own music, you can tell when they really groove on a riff, when they really jell as a unit, and yeah i think its essentially an interaction, a conversation, a dialectic, a celebration communicated via the language of music. theres a shared sense of life and joy and ecstasy that is unable to be expressed by any spoken language. it is extremely personal and has differing levels of meaning and intensity among different people, theres no rules limiting or defining how this communication must be structured so artists are entirely free to create something completely unique. as much as spoken and written languages help us communicate they also limit our expression because we are confined to their rules and restrictions - not that they are intended to limit us (unless youre in the world of orwell's 1984 with big brother reducing our dictionaries to the basic, to necessity and nothing else), it is an inherent characteristic, nothing ominous hahaa. but obviously language is a constantly evolving entity, reacting to the advances and evolutions of its employers. we continually invent new words and phrases and usages - something that some would refer to as an enrichment of our linguistic expressivity while others would incriminate it as a bastardization and dilution of what language is intended to be - we challenge its rigidity and limitations through poetry, through colloquial expressions, through creative descriptions. but despite all of the creative possibilities that exist within spoken and written language, i would argue that music is a much freer form of communication, but of a communication much more mystical and much less scientific, a communication incompatible with any written or spoken language.