Music is sculpture

This poem was inspired by a quote from Frank Zappa:

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/frank_zappa.html

This is a poem within a poem, actually. The four lines on the left side, read as one poem , is this:

Music is sculpture
Heard as melody.

Like sculptured wind,
Skin responds to touch.

The poem in total reads with all the lines contained in a zig-zag fashion

Music is sculpture.

Music is sculpture

Each definite note
Surrounded
By indefinite space,
Like stone cut with chisel.

The string of random repetition of beat and pause
Becomes a melodic rhythm of sound and silence

Heard as melody.

When it passes through the ear
Music is a tactile experience.
Formed by the course and the smooth,
The full and the empty,

The eardrum
beats along with the sensation of air formed

Like sculpted wind,

The sensation of sound to the ear
Is not unlike the sensation of texture to skin -
Whether soft or harsh
the ear responds
to music
the way

Skin responds to touch.