5 - Blu M: The Sound of a Sound

 Turn on the radio and take a listen. Most of the time, you will hear a sound, whether its boom clack dat dat dat or yeaaah yeah ohh blah blah blah.

Music.

Most of the time, you can hear music in the background of your everyday life, and you may not even realize. Take a single day into consideration. Maybe you wake up and watch a show, music. You get in the car, roll your windows down, and the car next to you is blasting something, music. You’re walking around the neighborhood or on campus and can hear the phones of people surrounding you, music. You’re outside and wind starts blowing, carrying leaves into the air, music.

Wait, leaves in the air? Music?

Correct! The music in our everyday lives doesn’t always come from something so superficial, like the radio, your phone, or your own voice. Growing up with my mom, who was a classical violinist, and currently DJs, plays the guzheng, and is a dancer, I have unlocked a deeper recognition and appreciation for music, or moreso, sound. Life without sound is essentially a life with no music.

My mom would always tell me to take a long listen to whats going on around and describe what I heard, whether it was cars running over a poorly installed sewer grate, birds chirping, or just the sound of our shoes tapping pavement as we walked. I would reply with those thing and out of the blue, she would turn the beat into a song, or relate it to a piece of existing music. 

I totally get it! Literally any sound ever can be considered music, or an aspect of it. Looking back on the history of music too, we learn that the origin of music in its early forms were all drum based. Sticks, rocks, clapping, slapping, rhythm. Yes! Since such early times, humans (or Neanderthals even) have picked up this idea of “music” from what surrounds them

Of course, many of you reading may be thinking I am crazy, or find it odd that I can view our shoes as being instrumental. However, I do hope that you can take a single day of yours into consideration and open your eyes to the music of our lives.

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