Thursday, January 7, 2010

daily life& music

music in my daily life..
I mean I guess I experience music in my daily life as sort of just a constant that kind of keeps me going from place to place in my mind or throughout the day. It's like how I function. I've always got it playing. I'll start off with it on my computer, then put it on my iPhone without headphones (haha obnoxious for other people) or if I feel a little too self aware I'll put on headphones and jam out. I have to be listening or thinking about music or else it just gets too quiet. Not that I'm like drowning out thoughts or like particulars of my life, but like music helps provoke thoughts not hinder them--it just like functions how it wants to in that moment that I hear it.

interpretation of music as a part of culture
I mean music is definitely a part of culture but it's not the only thing. In class we kind of suggested the chicken and the egg relation. It's a circle, there isn't a true start. It's just like on the way through the whole idea of culture--just flowing to something, that identity. And yeah, the circles are all overlapping like of culture, genres, etc.


music as an art form
This is difficult to explain. Music is definitely an art form. But songs are truly art when the music speaks without words or when the words just hit you in multiple ways with the flow of the music, or if some large idea just comes at you from hearing something. Pink Floyd's "Great Gig In the Sky" is sort of a nice example as a fluid sound of art; and The Flaming Lips' cover of it adds that electronic extra layer of art to it. I also think Sound Tribe Sector 9 can sort of access the music speaking sometimes element which is really rad. Or maybe The Grateful Dead's "Tastebud".. I feel like I just move with the music and the words like I can just feel them. Oh but, Lady Gaga's music videos.. that's a whole other aspect haha.

3 comments:

  1. I agree with the chicken and and the egg comment. I believe we all were born into music yet music impacts us all differently. That is whyit is such an art form. the interpretation and feelings i get from a certain song can be totally different from another person. I like your view.

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  2. That's a great analogy in using with the chicken and egg thing. It makes total sense because it is impossible to trace back to the beginning. I think that music is purposefully designed to mean different things to different people, or else it isn't an art form.

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  3. Music is an art form, you're absolutely right. And the art becomes so much more potent when the music/lyrics just hit you and evoke the same types of emotions other forms of art would. I like the description of the sound being "fluid" because it just flows right into you and kind of takes over you in a way.

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