How I found myself through music | Anika Paulson

Prevodilac: Ivana Korom Lektor: Aleksandar Korom

The philosopher Plato once said,

Platon je jednom prilikom rekao:

"Music gives a soul to the universe,

"Muzika daje dušu univerzumu,

wings to the mind,

krila umu,

flight to the imagination

polet mašti

and life to everything."

i život svemu."

Music has always been a big part of my life.

Muzika je oduvek bila veliki deo mog života.

To create and to perform music

Stvaranje i izvođenje muzike

connects you to people countries and lifetimes away.

spaja vas sa ljudima iz dalekih zemalja i daleke prošlosti.

It connects you to the people you're playing with,

Povezuje vas sa ljudima sa kojim svirate,

to your audience

sa vašom publikom

and to yourself.

i sa vama samima.

When I'm happy, when I'm sad,

Kada sam srećna ili tužna,

when I'm bored, when I'm stressed,

kada mi je dosadno ili kada sam nervozna,

I listen to and I create music.

ja slušam i stvaram muziku.

When I was younger, I played piano;

Kada sam bila mlađa, svirala sam klavir,

later, I took up guitar.

a kasnije i gitaru.

And as I started high school,

Kada sam krenula u srednju školu,

music became a part of my identity.

muzika je postala deo mog identiteta.

I was in every band,

Bila sam u svakom bendu,

I was involved with every musical fine arts event.

učestvovala sam na svakom muzičkom događaju.

Music surrounded me.

Muzika me je okruživala.

It made me who I was,

Učinila me je onim što jesam,

and it gave me a place to belong.

i pokazala mi mesto gde pripadam.

Now, I've always had this thing with rhythms.

Oduvek su me zanimali ritmovi.

I remember being young,

Kada sam bila mala,

I would walk down the hallways of my school

hodala bih hodnicima svoje škole,

and I would tap rhythms to myself on my leg with my hands,

i udarala ritam rukom po nozi

or tapping my teeth.

ili bih tapkala zube.

It was a nervous habit,

To sam radila nesvesno,

and I was always nervous.

i uvek sam bila nervozna.

I think I liked the repetition of the rhythm --

Mislim da mi se dopadalo ponavljanje ritma -

it was calming.

smirivalo me je.

Then in high school,

U srednjoj školi

I started music theory,

sam krenula na muzičku teoriju,

and it was the best class I've ever taken.

i to je bio najbolji predmet koji sam pohađala.

We were learning about music --

Učili smo o muzici -

things I didn't know, like theory and history.

stvari koje nisam znala kao što su teorija i istorija.

It was a class where we basically just listened to a song,

To je bio predmet na kom bismo jednostavno odslušali pesmu,

talked about what it meant to us

razgovarali o njenom značenju,

and analyzed it,

analizirali je,

and figured out what made it tick.

i ispitivali šta je čini uspešnom.

Every Wednesday, we did something called "rhythmic dictation,"

Svake srede, imali bismo ritmički diktat,

and I was pretty good at it.

koji sam radila vrlo dobro.

Our teacher would give us an amount of measures

Nastavnik bi nam dao broj taktova

and a time signature,

i ritam,

and then he would speak a rhythm to us

a onda bi nam diktirao ritam

and we would have to write it down with the proper rests and notes.

a mi bismo zapisivali, sa sve pauzama i notama.

Like this:

Ovako:

ta ta tuck-a tuck-a ta,

ta ta taka taka ta

ta tuck-a-tuck-a-tuck-a, tuck-a.

ta taka taka taka, taka.

And I loved it.

Obožavala sam to.

The simplicity of the rhythm --

Jednostavnost ritma -

a basic two- to four- measure line --

običan dvočetvrtinski takt -

and yet each of them almost told a story,

a ipak bi skoro svaki od njih govorio priču,

like they had so much potential,

kao da imaju mnogo potencijala,

and all you had to do was add a melody.

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.

Ritam predstavlja temelj preko koga se stvaraju melodije i harmonije.

It gives structure and stability.

On daje strukturu i stabilnost.

Now, music has these parts --

Muzika se sastoji iz tri dela -

rhythm, melody and harmony --

ritma, melodije i harmonije -

just like our lives.

baš kao i naši životi.

Where music has rhythm,

Ono što je ritam za muziku,

we have routines and habits --

za nas su navike i običaji -

things that help us to remember what to do and to stay on track,

stvari koje nam pomažu da zapamtimo naše obaveze i ostanemo u fokusu,

and to just keep going.

da nastavimo da guramo napred.

And you may not notice it,

Možda to ne primećujete,

but it's always there.

ali ona je uvek tu.

(Guitar)

(Gitara)

And it may seem simple,

Možda deluje jednostavno,

it may seem dull by itself,

možda deluje glupo samo za sebe,

but it gives tempo and heartbeat.

ali nam daje tempo i otkucaj.

And then things in your life add on to it,

A onda se stvari iz vašeg života nadovežu,

giving texture --

pružajući teksturu -

that's your friends and your family,

to su vaši prijatelji i porodica,

and anything that creates a harmonic structure in your life

i sve što daje sklad vašem životu

and in your song,

i u vašoj pesmi,

like harmonies,

kao harmonije,

cadences

kadence

and anything that makes it polyphonic.

bilo šta što stvara polifoniju.

And they create beautiful chords and patterns.

Oni stvaraju divne akorde i obrasce.

(Guitar)

(Gitara)

And then there's you.

A onda na red dolazite vi.

You play on top of everything else,

Vi svirate preko svega,

on top of the rhythms and the beat

preko ritma i takta

because you're the melody.

jer ste vi melodija.

And things may change and develop,

Stvari će se menjati i ići svojim tokom,

but no matter what we do,

ali bilo šta da uradimo,

we're still the same people.

mi smo i dalje isti ljudi.

Throughout a song melodies develop,

Tokom pesme melodije se razvijaju,

but it's still the same song.

ali to je i dalje ista pesma.

No matter what you do,

Šta god da uradite,

the rhythms are still there:

ritmovi su i dalje tu:

the tempo and the heartbeat ...

tempo i otkucaj srca...

until I left,

dok nisam otišla,

and I went to college

i krenula na koledž

and everything disappeared.

i tada je sve nestalo.

When I first arrived at university,

Kada sam došla na univerzitet,

I felt lost.

bila sam izgubljena.

And don't get me wrong -- sometimes I loved it and it was great,

Nemojte me pogrešno shvatiti - ponekad mi je bilo divno,

but other times,

ali u nekim trenucima,

I felt like I had been left alone

činilo mi se da sam ostavljena

to fend for myself.

da se borim sama za sebe.

It's like I had been taken out of my natural environment,

Kao da sam izvedena iz svog prirodnog okruženja,

and put somewhere new,

i ostavljena na nekom mestu,

where the rhythms and the harmonies

gde su ritmovi i harmonije,

and the form had gone away,

i forma nestali,

and it was just me --

i ostala sam samo ja -

(Guitar)

(Gitara)

silence and my melody.

tišina i moja melodija.

And even that began to waver,

Čak je i to postalo nesigurno,

because I didn't know what I was doing.

jer nisam znala šta radim.

I didn't have any chords to structure myself,

Nisam imala akorde po kojim bih se izgradila,

or a rhythm

ili ritam

or a beat to know the tempo.

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

Bili su van ritma

and off-key.

i van štima.

And the more I was around them,

Što sam duže njima bila okružena,

the more my melody started to sound like theirs.

to su moje melodije postajale sličnije njihovim.

And slowly I began to lose myself,

Polako sam počela da gubim sebe,

like I was being washed away.

kao da me je nosila struja.

But then the next moment --

Ali već u sledećem trenutku -

(Guitar)

(Gitara)

I could hear it.

mogla sam da je čujem.

And I could feel it.

Da je osetim.

And it was me.

To sam bila ja.

And I was here.

I bila sam tu.

And it was different,

Bilo je drugačije,

but not worse off.

ali ne i gore.

Just changed a little.

Samo malo izmenjeno.

Music is my way of coping with the changes in my life.

Muzika mi pomaže da se nosim sa promenama u svom životu.

There's a beautiful connection between music and life.

Postoji divna veza između muzike i života.

It can bind us to reality

Ona nas vezuje za realnost

at the same time it allows us to escape it.

i u isto vreme nam dozvoljava da od nje pobegnemo.

Music is something that lives inside of you.

Muzika je nešto što živi u vama.

You create it and you're created by it.

Vi stvarate nju i ona vas.

Our lives are not only conducted by music,

Naši životi nisu samo vođeni muzikom,

they're also composed of it.

već su od nje i sačinjeni.

So this may seem like a bit of a stretch,

Ovo može zvučati kao preterivanje,

but hear me out:

ali obratite pažnju:

music is a fundamental part of what we are

muzika čini elementarni deo nas samih

and of everything around us.

i svega oko nas.

Now, music is my passion,

Muzika je moja strast,

but physics also used to be an interest of mine.

ali fizika me je takođe interesovala.

And the more I learned,

I što sam više učila,

the more I saw connections between the two --

više sam uviđala veze između njih -

especially regarding string theory.

posebno sa teorijom struna.

I know this is only one of many theories,

Znam da je to samo jedna od mnogih teorija,

but it spoke to me.

ali ona mi je "legla".

So, one aspect of string theory, at its simplest form, is this:

Jedan aspekt teorije struna u svojoj najjednostavnijoj formi jeste:

matter is made up of atoms,

materija je sačinjena od atoma,

which are made up of protons and neutrons and electrons,

koji su sačinjeni od protona, neutrona i elektrona,

which are made up of quark.

koji su sačinjeni od kvarkova.

And here's where the string part comes in.

I ovde dolazi deo sa strunama.

This quark is supposedly made up of little coiled strings,

Kvark je navodno izgrađen od malih uvezanih struna

and it's the vibrations of these strings that make everything what it is.

i vibracije ovih struna čine sve onim što jeste.

Michio Kaku once explained this

Mičio Kaku je jednom ovo objasnio

in a lecture called, "The Universe in a Nutshell,"

u lekciji pod nazivom "Univerzum ukratko",

where he says,

gde kaže:

"String theory is the simple idea

"Teorija struna je jednostavna ideja

that the four forces of the universe --

da četiri sile univerzuma -

gravity, the electromagnetic force, and the two strong forces --

gravitacija, elektromagnetna sila, i dve jake sile -

can be viewed as music.

mogu da se posmatraju kao muzika.

The music of tiny little rubber bands."

Muzika sićušnih gumica."

In this lecture, he goes on to explain physics

U toj lekciji on objašnjava fiziku

as the laws of harmony between these strings;

kao zakone harmonije između ovih struna;

chemistry, as the melodies you can play on these strings;

hemiju kao melodije koje možete da svirate na ovim strunama;

and he states that the universe is a "symphony of strings."

i tvrdi da je univerzum "simfonija struna."

These strings dictate the universe;

Ove strune diktiraju univerzum;

they make up everything we see and everything we know.

one čine sve što vidimo i sve što poznajemo.

They're musical notes,

One su muzičke note,

but they make us what we are and they hold us together.

ali one nas čine onim što smo i drže nas na okupu.

So you see,

Tako da, vidite,

everything is music.

sve jeste muzika.

(Guitar)

(Gitara)

When I look at the world,

Kada posmatram svet,

I see music all around us.

vidim muziku svuda oko nas.

When I look at myself,

Kada gledam sebe,

I see music.

vidim muziku.

And my life has been defined by music.

Moj život je definisan muzikom.

I found myself through music.

Pronašla sam se kroz muziku.

Music is everywhere,

Muzika je svuda,

and it is in everything.

ona je u svemu.

And it changes and it builds

Menja se i gradi

and it diminishes.

i nestaje.

But it's always there,

Ali ona je uvek tu.

supporting us,

pomaže nam,

connecting us to each other

spaja nas jedne sa drugima

and showing us the beauty of the universe.

i pokazuje nam lepotu univerzuma.

So if you ever feel lost,

Ako se ikada osetite izgubljeno,

stop and listen for your song.

zastanite i oslušnite vašu pesmu.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)