Hearing Is Believing/"Your Love"

Well, this morning, I decided on getting down with finishing this reading assignment for homework.

...I gotta say, quite different with how this assignment went, comparing it to the past few reading assignments. As far as the interest went with this, I was more into this than the past few assignments (not to saying that the others were bad!). How I'm going to respond to these two works (the short reading, and the audio recording) will be mixed up, so the focus on this will not be jumping from one to another, but meshed up, because I saw connections between both assignments.

Reading, "Your Love Is The Place Where I Come From", it's ironic, from hearing the author's perspective, that I actually do relate songs to things about my life, connected by the lyrics, the time I've listened to it, or what it reminds me of. I've heard other people making this similar connection before, but this finally hit into my head about how I look at music at times.

Two examples of this - "How To Disappear Completely" by Radiohead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAF8D0ugyVk) is a song that's perhaps my favorite (if not, one of the handful I love), because of how it relates to me, how I feel isolated with life's problems I deal with, and how I want to run away from life... like the song understands me. ...But not only that, but the feel of the music attracts me to it: the cold, but yet warm feeling of being wrapped within the guitar's chords, the piano's cries, the drums, all of the instruments that creates this atmosphere I could look at the world around me... and be wrapped within. So it's not only the lyrics, but the singing behind it, and the instruments that create it.

Metallica's 'One' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXPkmIwwobA) I can relate through when my grandfather passed away. I've listened to it over and over again, following a phone call from my parents early one winter's morning years ago, listening to it after noticing what happened, and throughout most of the days afterwards. The lyrics connect with the event that occurred, but also the mood of the music, the guitars; all creates this world around me, envelopes me within a different mood of how to look at things around me, a different painting.

So, your ears can help in painting a picture in your head. It isn't only the lyrics that can create a message, but the music behind it. As Mr. Sloan mentioned, lyrics are a minor thing to worry about; it's the music that matters. The music itself is the core message to how it creates such a feel to the listener, different in each one's perspective of it.

About half a year ago, my look upon instrumental bands has got more of my respect to just listening to the mood of a piece more; by this, it also connected me better to classical music. I've been inspired to writing creative pieces and mini-compositions on my guitar, by just listening to the instruments alone. A good example of this is 'Explosions in the Sky'; if you have time, this is a song that can help you understand the importance of the instruments themselves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeaXvVLuSJw). The message within the music is there, to create something in your head, let it be inspiration to writing some lyrics, a painted world in your head to draw, whatever.

Moving on, in the 'Hearing Is Believing' audio, this is connected along with what I've said. Lyrics are not always the important part of a song, but what's behind them, supporting them. The lyrics are just the same as any other piece of the song: a part of an ice cream sundae.

Ironically, it reminds me of the part in the audio that used audio and sound effects to convey a picture... of when Lake Michigan was created as a hot chocolate. The water was hot chocolate after being drained of water, people got the whipped cream on, and then a plane carried a 10 lb cherry to finish the job. How this worked, through the ears alone, painted our imagination of the whole thing; if everybody were to re-create that picture in a drawing to show everybody else for comparison, everybody's would be different (maybe not a whole lot, but some).

I agree that the ears within music, can reach to one's creativity, in a way that television, art work, whatever, can't provide.

The beauty about each of these forms of expressions is awing. Music can creates a picture, television can help motivate ideas, art work can help one be inspired... so much that each of these forms can provide. There are numerous possibilities about where they can all take you, and each way provides it differently in how you look at it, how you feel, how you create. It's like comparing the first 'Harry Potter' to the movie; sure, the movie's great, but the book's got it all (only because of the limitation); when I read the first book LONG ago, the interpretation of how I looked at it in my head, was WAY different than the movie.


... And that's pretty much it. I might have gone off-topic with the discussion, and WAY overboard with it! I guess it's just myself in a 'writing phase' perhaps : )

I hope I flew with this for the most part xD

Oh, and by the way, the audio assignment sounded pretty good! ... Unless it's because I'm in the Dom right now, I thought the audio was pretty clean in terms of the recording! I might wanna copy of this, because it was a very good job!! : )