Music Makes Me Lose Control

I. love. music. It's been a huge part of my life for as long as I can remember so talking about it in class has been fascinating. I love exploring music I've never heard of before, it's like opening a book for the first time and the pages are untainted and the binding is still in tact and it has that smell... that new book smell. I. love. music.

I have been playing piano for about 10 years, and it's always been a dream of mine to be able to play Mozart's K.545. I'm no where near close, lol, but it still takes my breath away to hear it! On a lighter note, I'm so glad that the synthesizer was such a hit, because I am a huge fan of techno music... which probably wouldn't be around if we couldn't manipulate sound like we can now-a-days. The most irritating piece we watched in class was the 100 Metronomes from 1963. Being an ADD pianist, it always messed me up more than it helped me. I just hate that sound... the ticking... I'm like Captain Hook, I practically can't function if I can hear the clock ticking!

That Thermin instrument had to be the greatest invention of all time! Like, who would have thought, right? It just looked so simple and easy to use (for those who were coordinated...) I say we do a mass revolution and bring that instrument back! :)

I remember one time I was riding in the car with my dad, and we were listening to Blink-182 (I had just bought their Take Off Your Pants And Jacket album [2001]). Naturally, I'm belting it out at the top of my lungs, and I'm sure his ears hurt but my dad is just smiling at me. So then after like the 5 or 6th song, he goes... "Is this the same song over and over again?" I'm like "What? We're on track 6" "Oh... They all sound the same!" I'm sitting here thinking... how on earth could you possibly even think about thinking that? They are NOT all the same. But, in reality, they are. They are just a different key thrown with some different notes and tempo. Wha-la. New song. Well, the whole point of that story was to reiterate a point made in class: There is nothing new... It's all just been reused and manipulated to sound different. I can most certainly believe that. Look how many times "Satisfaction" was used (even though the Rolling Stones version is really hard to beat!)

I find it fascinating that it took artists and musicians so long to use silence in their pieces. Hello? Talk about taking advantage of what's right in front of you, ya know? Silence in their music was a radical notion that took their art to a whole different level. It changed it. It made it. It reinvented it. So what do you think we could add now/today? Is there anything we could add to our music that hasn't been added already? Is there something so radical that we could deface the world of music and paint it any color we wanted? Well, according to postmodernism... we can't. Everything has been created already. Do that make us non-creative? Does that take away our talent? How many more times can we remake "Satisfaction" before we have to re-write the song? How many more re-mixes can one ipod hold?