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March 02, 2007 |
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Flying Keys
FOUND by Jenn Lawrence
in Oakville, Ontario, Canada
This was in a music reflection book I found on the playground. The kid is just so good at expressing his wants!
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
good expressions but kinna scary!
Flying keys.. I love it!
I love this! It reminds me of some music tests I had to take as a youngster - this is cute.
i wish i could be a part of this listening lesson.
So . . . I was with the kid through the first line and most of the second, but then the last "couler" . . . the violin makes him/her think of "bloodied"? Is that what it says? Weird. And I can't quite make out that last line . . . "It makes me want run and pretend fight"? What, like imaginary Power Rangers fight or something? Then comes the clincher: "Flying Keys". Fighting with flying keys? or maybe when this kid generally pretend fights, flying keys are magically involved? Hmm. The kid may have something there. All those pretend fights I had as a child and something was missing all along -- the flying keys! Dang, the pretend kicking-assness could have been so much better with those! Oh well, you live, you learn.
Sounds like from the 1970s, not from a few days ago! I can't read this kid's handwriting. What is after green and just before flying keys? run and pretend fight?
Music puts colors in my head, too.
What does that say? I can't understand it.
come on guys, doesn't anyone remember my past adventures? I still have the scars from those damn flying keys!
WTF ??
I think this is what it says (as a former 2nd grade teacher I'm pretty good at decoding this kind of stuff):
I think these are the instruments violin xylophone french horn
It makes me think of the [colors] back dark green [blood red]
It makes me want [to] run and pretend [to] fight flying keys
I think its one of the most poetic things I've read in a long while.
first of all, "blood red" perhaps not "bloodied". Secondly, allow this Kid--if he or she even is a kid--poetic license. He or she was evidently exploring the relationship between sound and emotional/imaginative experience. "Flying keys" denotes movement and sound--"keys" as in musical notes--, as well as the instruments themselves--the keys of instruments. It's a creative gesture, a problem solving process.
Oooh! I love the action on the magnify button. That really helps on this one.
I would love love love to know what song he was listening too.
I bet it wasn't a regular song, I think it was the sound of an orchestra tuning up.
wow. you need to listen to my music more often!
As long as this kid keeps liking music, I will be happy. Fight those flyin' keys!!! Stay of the football team!!!
maybe s/he's referring to the first Harry Potter movie. Specifically the part when Harry and friends have to fight the flying keys to get into the next room... but that doesn't really explain the beginning part.
i also love how "fight" is spelled "fghit". it's like he knew what letters were supposed to be there, but couldn't remember what order to put them in. cute :)
I actually don't think they are saying pretend fight...based on the numerous misspellings, I would venture a guess the author was meaning "pretend flight"...flying with the keys and all that jazz....
Thanks for the translation Zach. I can't believe he can spell "Xylaphone" better then me... I bet there was a picture of one on a poster somewhere in the music room. My music teacher made us listen to George Micheals, after Wham! It was scary.
I actually don't think they are saying pretend fight...based on the numerous misspellings, I would venture a guess the author was meaning "pretend flight"...flying with the keys and all that jazz....
Like describing (or even looking into) different colors and musical instruments that are not some leftist-socialist tripe makes someone pretend fight. Way to be a judgenmental bitch.
I think these are the instruments: violin xylophone French horn. It makes me think of the colors: black dark green blood red. It makes me want to pretend fight flying keys.
This is so cute. I remember middle school music class and expressing myself. Oh, those were the days. It sounds like the teacher had the child describe how the song made the child feel.
It is interesting to me that most of the people who have responded read this and assumed that a boy had wrote it. I did the same thing...I think it says a lot about our culture
Very expressive, but kind of dark at the same time. A little too dark for a kid this age, if you ask me. What the hell kind of music did they play for this child?
Note: Before anyone breaks out the rope to lynch me for assuming the kid is very young (I'd say around 8 or 9), just look at the handwriting. It's little-kid-sloppy, plain and simple.
i thought it said "it makes me want rum and party fights"
I bet the song he is writing about is "Flight of the bumble bees"
I actually found this. It was a boy, named Jason, or so it said on the front of his exercise book. Also a page is missing from the post, he also mentions that he enjoys staring at the teacher.
Hahahaha Jason in Iowa! Way to throw in our new favorite phrase from the previous day's Find.
I concur, Laurie. I immediatly tried to FIND the new "judgenmental bitch". Why do I love pronouncing it like that?
Thanks for the extra info, Jenn. I love the idea of Jason staring at the teacher and thinking about flying keys! I wonder if said teacher read this, and how s/he felt when she saw that.
I think those of you who find this creepy based on the 'age' of the writer are underestimating the depth of emotion that kids experience.
I actually thought he/she wanted to fight flying monkeys. I had to look again after reading the posts. I'm kind of disappointed.
i took flying keys alllll wrong. you know in cartoons, when they um... play all the keys at once, like going down the line like (can you tell i only made it through two piano lessons when i was a kid and then threw a hissy fit to never have to go again?) the keys kinda fly off of the piano like you are shaking out a rug, almost?
did that make sense to anyone?
I also thought the word was "flight" as opposed to fight. It gets a little fuzzy towards the end there but I think this find is really beautiful. Even if this was some school assignment I think it has an earnest honesty to it that I haven't seen for a while.
jason in iowa just made my day.
also, i love this kid's reaction to music. i wish more people took the time to really think about how music makes them feel.
isn't there an actual psychological thing where when some people here a sound, they "see" a certain color?
just keeping up on my random facts...
thumbelina, I THINK it's called synesthesia...I have always thought that was a fascinating "quirk" - it's like they are superheroes or something. Maybe there is a down side, too. Anyway, I would love to meet a synesthetic some day.
I agree 155%, Jess!
It does look like a boy's writing.
But why "pretend" to fight the keys? Maybe he actually does that a lot, and it makes him want to run out in the hallway and do his Harry Potter fantasy fightin'. Such a fabulous direction for music to take a child!
thumbelina:
Both sound and light exhibit wavelike characteristics with frequencies and wavelengths. Some classical composers also played around with arranging the colour spectrum to correspond with the chromatic scale.
I interperated "flying keys" as those of a Piano.
I love how kids join ALL their sentences with "and then..." while telling stories - and only pause when their lungs have no more oxygen.
Reba-- i too saw flying monkeys and was very dissapointed to see that is not actually what it said.. :-(
hahaha Jason, you rock!!!
Also, I'm starting to feel like it's some kinda requirement that all finds have a comment from one of three ongoing themes:
1)that's so creepy! change your locks! move away! join the witness protection program!
2)don't mention spelling or grammar errors! those are trivial and it's ridiculous for you to get angry about them! the fact that you do makes me so completely enraged that I might have a stroke!!
3)you stupid, presumptuous bigots! stop assuming the writer is a girl/guy! and how dare you think this might be written about a heterosexual relationship!
haha thanks here, for not letting me down! :)
blood... fights... flying keys...
sounds like my middle-school jazz band for sure.
Flying Keys= harry potter.
yup.
Cute kid.
Jenn, what school did you find it at? Just wondering if it was one I attended...
First of all, Mickey B, hahaha!! You're SO right. People are so predictable!
Second of all, I'm so glad that I wasn't the only person who thought that said flying monkeys!
Third, I love this find! This kid has a special gift to be able to interpret that much emotion from a song. Not everyone possesses that ability.