Intention is like a child

I did not intend to carve two "musical spoons" for anything more than to have them be spoons for making music.  
I did not intend for them to take off on their own, like children, like a child - like their sound made together, their resonance, their way of being their own sense of musical creation - like a singularity, as if a child, heading out into an unknown, wondrous landscape that no parent can ever prepare them for...

But like children, like a child, the intention of their music has taken off.  It is beyond my grasp, even as I want to have some sense of it being something I can still feel close to.  But I am not close, but I am...

I received an email today from the woman who I had carved them for:

I just returned this morning after a wonderful concert in Trichy. It has been a wonderful experience not just for me, but for my whole team. While individually the spoon sound was great, neither of us was sure how it would complement the other sounds on stage. But it was simply beautiful. A very subtle yet very grounded sound. 

The concert was part of an initiative called 'Svanubhava', that takes classical music to children. So our audience comprised mostly school and college children. So it was an amazing opportunity for me to open out their imagination to a new sound and the possibility of imagining new instruments. This is the first time anything like this has been used in Carnatic music. The children showed a lot of interest. I seem to have had some influence on them. Many kids came and told me after the show that they wanted to go home and try. I also signed some autographs for the kids. The mridangam player's 6 year old daughter collected all forks and spoons from the dinner table last night and said she wanted to do a concert. It's just so heartening.  

उत्साहवर्धक   utsahavardhak