| p>There is indeed just too much music in the world | | | | form community, mate, etc. Not so long ago, the magic |
| and because we keep listening to it, we are missing | | | | of pleasing sounds was enough to calm us or put us |
| great sounds around us. John Cage once said "If you | | | | into a state of reverie. We felt the beauty. With the |
| develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like | | | | advance of technology, we began incorporating more |
| developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that | | | | and more music into our daily lives. The present day |
| are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a | | | | finds us swarmed by all sorts of noise that are not |
| good deal of experience." | | | | necessarily beneficial to us. |
| Though his reasons for missing the ability to hear other | | | | Why do we listen to music all the time? This is an |
| sounds come from his "vision" for what music should | | | | important question because the answer may tell us |
| be, it is very important to take his statement at its face | | | | that, perhaps, we don't like to give our souls a moment |
| value. The problem we face today is that, being too | | | | of rest. Perhaps we are hiding our self-loath from |
| musical, we are forgetting ordinary sounds. | | | | ourselves; perhaps our minds need to be even more |
| If we define music as "any agreeable -- pleasing and | | | | accelerated than they already are; perhaps we don't |
| harmonious - sounds," we see that a lot of what is | | | | know what to do when all is quiet. |
| available to our ears today is not that. However, if we | | | | Silence is golden, though it is rare the moment when |
| define music "as an artistic form of auditory | | | | we really perceive total silence. However, if you stop |
| communication incorporating instrumental or vocal | | | | the music and pay attention to your ordinary daily |
| tones in a structured and continuous manner" then yes, | | | | sounds, you will be surprised. What are the sounds of |
| we must agree that even "rap" is a form of music. | | | | your present reality? |
| How many people do you know are constantly | | | | Turn off your music and you will hear the barking of |
| listening to music, in whatever form it comes? Perhaps | | | | the dog, the singing of the birds, the ticking of the |
| you are one of them? Why need a person inflict upon | | | | cuckoo clock, the crackling of wood burning, the |
| him/herself some type of incessant rhythmic | | | | humming of the fridge or the drier or the computer, the |
| background sounds, and worse, tasteless, tacky, and | | | | giggles of children playing, the snoring of the cat, the |
| aggressive lyrics? | | | | splattering of the rain, the whispers of lovers, the |
| Music has served many purposes to humanity. It | | | | rustling of the leaves, the words of people, the sound |
| helped us express our mood, communicate, work, rest, | | | | of silence... |