Soul-Easy

Describe a building in your world is used for leisure pursuits? What does it look like, and what do people do there?  

You may mistakenly say   "Music Soothes the Savage Beast",   I say "Music IS the savage beast".   Like any beast of burden, it must be shackled and be brought to heel for the good of all!

— Baghatur Conductor Tengis Gendine.
  [Continent 4 is where this takes place]   The soul easy, a building where playing music in infrasound happens in a clandestine manner.   In [Continent 4] music is a controlled substance and musical prodigies are forcefully made wards of the State (basically prisoner/slaves) and the Governmental Choirs are a bit of a guilded cage, even for the most skilled of musicians who agree with the political stance.   At these soul-easies, the musically inclined can practice in relative secreacy, a form of music that has developed for the production of magic that can produce great magical effect, akin to some of the choir/orcestra performances, with only a fraction of the percivable sound.   Elsewhere in the world there is no need to conceal most music [NEED A WORD FOR MAGIC/IMBUED MUSIC = ?SOULMONIC?], in fact it is a status symbol to have music performed, and hiding it would be unthinkable in most circumstances [DOES NUMBER OF LISTENERS CHANGE EFFECTS/STRENGTH (If a note falls in a forest and n oone is there to hear it,]   The Soul-easy provides a method for the politically unconnected to try to get their loved ones "Tuned" and an opportunity for souls within [Continent 4] to try to find harmony away from Government control.   Soul-easies also act as an ilicit conservatoire's, and provide training for budding musicians and even the odd prodigy that escapes the government net.   [Braile & Sign Language traditions evolve to transmit music training]   Fan language, and knitting circles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
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Dec 15, 2020 11:38 by Angantyr

An interesting piece of setting and I'm interested in how this turns out. My advice would be to change the color of the comment text to something darker. I can barely see what I'm writing this very moment. :D

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Dec 15, 2020 20:25 by Laurabones

Thank you for pointing that out, I have changed the text colour, and thank you for reading!