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JOIKING

First Yoik: melancholy, frozen, dark, meditate

Second Yoik: bright, surging, promising, inspiring


Language is only one of the many carriers of human emotions. When it comes to expressing emotion, language is impoverished in that the language itself cannot readily manifest whatever emotion a person wants to express. Compared to music, spoken words seem to be impoverished because of their limited variability. What makes music a great carrier of emotion is its musicality and forms. Music, without musicality, is noise. As a musician, I have been always amazed by the vitality of music in different forms, as I perform pieces written by various composers. Similar to language, different forms of music serve different purposes, and composers may chose a form that best suits his/her experience and current state of mind.


Other than music, other things that transcend music include art, science, technology, and mathematics.

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