Project 2 reading blog

"What we do here is the result of a dance between the world and

how we are made." Right off the bat I was intrigued by the statement above. What a way to describe the relationship between us and the sounds of the earth. I generally agree with this, as no matter what you do on a daily basis, you are creating sounds, which can be seen as creating music. Although not many think of sounds as music, John Cage, an unorthodox musician would argue that anything which creates an audible sensation is music.However this is not the only statement that I found to be of great creativity and elegance. The authors observation, that we do not directly concentrate on music when we listen to it left me both contemplating how I myself enjoy music, and how I determine others do the same. While This particular statement caught my attention, I heavily disagreed with it. I like to really listen to every component of a song when I listen, leaving me to disregard his statement about passive listening.

anyway, "to contextualize the perception of sound as it pertains to a necessary epistemological shift in the human relationship to our physical environment" is the author's way of describing why he chose to record environmental sounds. I agree with this and recognize the genius of it, and while I would not normally listen to a piece like this, I do respect all forms of music and would encourage anyone to go into nature and listen to the masterpiece created by the world's sounds.