aiyanah
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i think music is a vital component of how mankind developed, cognitively at least, can’t say physiologically cause we seem to just be taking advantage of something the platform can do.
what music does is it breaks down modes of being into song, equipped with beat and melody so that the reptilian part of the brain can make a spectacle of it and undergo an “experience” and sometimes the music grants all listeners the exact same experience, you can see this at live shows when the beat drops and the crowd goes wild.
singing on the other hand is much more considered (i'm talking creatively). think of it like this. first you hear the beat, then you hear the melody, then you hear a voice. of course this order can be swapped around but each one establishes something.
beat - tempo of the song
melody - key of the song, which is the staging point of potential as far as music goes imo
vocals - taking what is and elevating it, maximising the hoped upon potential…hopefully at least, perhaps even surpassing it in which case we’ll applaud in awe.
or perhaps we'll cry involuntarily.
perhaps we'll dance as something other overtakes our bodies.
why does this matter? because each song is a staging ground for possibility, a universe of sound if you will, and some of the creators among us make some compelling and complex universes that i could spend days fully getting to grasp with, others make things that simply hit a primal note that is satisfying. some songs have linked universes and they don't necessarily have to be from the same album or artist.
heck some creations are too complex for unpacking to some people, at which point they’ll sound like noise, take dubstep to the untrained ear for instance, or death metal, or country music. the music suits the culture it is made in, made to the tempo of that culture and is an attempt to connect the collective to a single anthem, because if one song is good by all human standards then what exactly is that song? combine this with the infinite sound combinations that are possible and music will always have the potential to surprise you, do something new, break a boundary in some manner.
this then works in tandem with fiction, for instance the movies that get original soundtracks, music has to be made to the tempo of the universe of the movie. the film then aims the culture towards the future, and the music allows society to move to the tempo of that imagined future while also satiating a need for abstraction in the present, because there is nothing more abstract than the mind of an artist.
this is also why people can love OST’s so much despite them having no real world analogue. i can go to the club and listen to lil wayne rapping about going to the club for instance, i can’t pretend to train my pet dragon though but people still like movie ost’s and i'm pretty certain it's because they gear someone towards a desirable reality.
and yes some music can be regressive by simply taking advantage of the reptilian portion of the brain (low key brainwashing), i wont name names but it’s generally always a phase as the society corrects itself to the cultural problem, if it even is a problem, whatever it is.
i'm lifting this from an answer i made on quora cause i'm curious to hear other considered thoughts on what music is to humans other than "something good to have playing in the background while engaging in coitus." though most will agree it certainly is that.
what music does is it breaks down modes of being into song, equipped with beat and melody so that the reptilian part of the brain can make a spectacle of it and undergo an “experience” and sometimes the music grants all listeners the exact same experience, you can see this at live shows when the beat drops and the crowd goes wild.
singing on the other hand is much more considered (i'm talking creatively). think of it like this. first you hear the beat, then you hear the melody, then you hear a voice. of course this order can be swapped around but each one establishes something.
beat - tempo of the song
melody - key of the song, which is the staging point of potential as far as music goes imo
vocals - taking what is and elevating it, maximising the hoped upon potential…hopefully at least, perhaps even surpassing it in which case we’ll applaud in awe.
or perhaps we'll cry involuntarily.
perhaps we'll dance as something other overtakes our bodies.
why does this matter? because each song is a staging ground for possibility, a universe of sound if you will, and some of the creators among us make some compelling and complex universes that i could spend days fully getting to grasp with, others make things that simply hit a primal note that is satisfying. some songs have linked universes and they don't necessarily have to be from the same album or artist.
heck some creations are too complex for unpacking to some people, at which point they’ll sound like noise, take dubstep to the untrained ear for instance, or death metal, or country music. the music suits the culture it is made in, made to the tempo of that culture and is an attempt to connect the collective to a single anthem, because if one song is good by all human standards then what exactly is that song? combine this with the infinite sound combinations that are possible and music will always have the potential to surprise you, do something new, break a boundary in some manner.
this then works in tandem with fiction, for instance the movies that get original soundtracks, music has to be made to the tempo of the universe of the movie. the film then aims the culture towards the future, and the music allows society to move to the tempo of that imagined future while also satiating a need for abstraction in the present, because there is nothing more abstract than the mind of an artist.
this is also why people can love OST’s so much despite them having no real world analogue. i can go to the club and listen to lil wayne rapping about going to the club for instance, i can’t pretend to train my pet dragon though but people still like movie ost’s and i'm pretty certain it's because they gear someone towards a desirable reality.
and yes some music can be regressive by simply taking advantage of the reptilian portion of the brain (low key brainwashing), i wont name names but it’s generally always a phase as the society corrects itself to the cultural problem, if it even is a problem, whatever it is.
i'm lifting this from an answer i made on quora cause i'm curious to hear other considered thoughts on what music is to humans other than "something good to have playing in the background while engaging in coitus." though most will agree it certainly is that.
whatever you want it to be 
