Silhouetted

3.1 He Is Silent in His Beauty

RAYA

Raya woke up, a moment of worry. Glancing at the clock, an electric pole was struck once. Often you wonder, who is too diligent to hit every electricity every hour? Surely a night watchman, but what kind of night watchman? Who needs to listen to the power poles?

Heard his mother taking the qiyamullail. Reveal the blanket. Open the window, look up at the sky. Cloudy. In the early hours of the morning, his heart suddenly sang. In silence. Ogre. Only he could hear but it made him smile. Because nothing made her heart sing since the afternoon.

This time her lover returned, the tones clinking back to form a harmony. So the early morning was filled Raya with a soft hum. With the windows open the Kingdom gazes into the night and permeates the wind.

VIOLIN

In a violin there is history, and it is common knowledge that the name of history must always be filled with names and years.  But when it comes to music, the law doesn't apply.

I've been looking everywhere, looking for a library that contains a lot of stories about music. But I've never found anything in any musical history. Except music.

A history can also tell the greatness of a person without making that person big-headed. For does not history always tell of those who are gone? Like from a dusty history book on the shelf corner of a deserted library, I read the history of classical music.

According to the author who knows who, it is difficult to find a figure that can rival Niccolo Paganini's technique in swiping the violin. Although many also say that Paganini is nothing more than an extraordinary imitator. But, not only is he a violinist, he is also a great mandolin, guitar and violin alto player.

Yeah, yeah yeah I know a little bit about him. Paganini violin game itself is much influenced by the style of a violin whose name is now widely forgotten, namely August Duranowski.

Other violins that also greatly influenced were Rudolph Kreutzer, and Paganini's equally Italian predecessor, Pietro Locatelli. Even Paganini cites one part of Locatelli's work, Caprice No 7, which was included in his work, Caprice No 1. This was done as a ‘tribute’ for Locatelli.

The works created by Paganini were, of course, mostly for his highly mastered musical instruments, the violin and the guitar. One of his inventions that is considered phenomenal is Moto Perpetuo, Opus 11 consisting of 2,248 notes played without pause.

RAYA

Is beauty usually on the face? Does beauty have a face? And will not the lover still look beautiful even though his face is not visible? Now that lover has come after being gone for so long. Isn't it just a few hours? Ah, losing a lover has never been so simple, even the passage of time will feel long.

Is it because of Anjeli?

Where possible? They met only one night. How much influence on the tone inserts that usually approach the day? Whatever it is, Raya saw it. For he never felt capable of hearing the tone, but of seeing it.

Sometimes clear. Sometimes vague. But never present as clearly, at once as vague as this.

Then on a night that was again crowded by various people down the sidewalk, seven days after the first meeting he found himself taking care of his steps, towards the dim cafe again.

This time the trip was accompanied by a smoother drizzle than usual. With such fine details it seems like people are not bothered. They keep walking, laughing, eating, shopping, and a million other activities that might be done in the air like this.

At a turn of the Kingdom stopped for a moment. He heard a song flowing from the windhole of a basement. Raya felt like she had heard those tones. He was pensive and finally remembered. The tones belong to Helmut Zacharias[1], the song is titled “When the White Lilac Blooms Again”[2]

He was thinking about the people who were playing down there. Or is this just a recording of a black disc? I don't know, because it feels so similar. It feels like the recording is too similar to the original. Even if the people there were fanatical music players, it seemed difficult to replicate the friction of Helmut Zacharias.

While from the door next to the building, a black sedan stopped and a woman came out. His clothes looked shiny and expensive, his shoes were silver. Who her? Does anyone care about him?

Speed up his path.

Accompanied by the tones of Helmut Zacharias he turned and soon disappeared in between pedestrians. But Raya felt the tones from the basement were continuing to follow her.

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[1] Musician from Germany, considered as the most famous violinist of his time

[2] Original title “Wenn der Weisse Flieder Wieder”