For this essay, we were given the creative freedom to write about whatever we wanted. We were told to write it in a creative way, similar to one of the books we studied in this unit, \u201cCitizen\u201d by Claudia Rankine. For this project, I decided to write about music, and the impact it had on my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The notes never leave<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They\u2019re trapped, all the melodies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All stuck in my head…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve always connected with music more than words. My childhood was dominated with music, my mother was a piano teacher and I began playing the violin early. My strictly musical upbringing changed the way I perceive music today; even when I listen to pop music, I\u2019m oblivious to the words being sung, but the melodies and sounds consistently stick out to me. Because of my deep connection to music, I have come to question why music can be so powerful and emotional even without speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All of my feelings<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Expressed through the sounds I hear<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Change my perspective…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The true beauty of music hides within the feelings and emotions that it evokes inside of the listener. Music can be used to generate happy or sad feelings, through the use of different types of chords and the instrumentation chosen to represent the feeling. And even the power of music can extend to the realm of medicine as seen as a common source of relaxation. Music in the future may even have the possibility of one day healing patients from strokes and diseases. As we discover more about how music can change the way we live, we can begin to allow music to become an even greater part of our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hear the music<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sounds never go away<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I feel it changing…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The music that we listen to activates 13 key emotions within our brian: amusement, joy, eroticism, beauty, relaxation, sadness, dreaminess, triumph, anxiety, scariness, annoyance, defiance, and feeling pumped up. These emotions dictate the sounds you hear in your songs, the reasons why when you hear 90s house music you feel excitement and when you feel relaxed when listening to smooth jazz. The emotions that one feels from music is up to their interpretation of the track, as shown in the study that tracked peoples emotions towards different tracks. In the study, they measured how people felt about the theme song to Jaws, and the cultures in the study had differing opinions on if the song sounded negative or positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Music is changing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We dictate what it becomes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We choose the future\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Much of the music we enjoy relies on our emotional response to music. When we listen to songs, all the detail in the chord selection, sounds, and effects change the way that we perceive different songs and find the styles that we enjoy listening to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Digital Media we made a video about our lyrical essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n