Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Evelyn Glennie


I will always remember how she made the marimba sound like an organ, I never imagined that that was even possible. Whenever I thought of marimba I thought of a Jamaican band with steel drums and the like. Just discovering that instruments can sound differently depending n how you play them, I know it seems obvious but still, it is amazing to me that the same instrument can have two (maybe even more) totally different sounds. She was so focused on her marimba it was almost as if there was nothing else in the world except for the two of them, the intensity that was created from sheer concentration and focus was insane.
Everyone experiences music in a different way, it is so true it isn't even funny. Music makes some people want to dance, sing, sleep, love, fight, jump, etc., but what and how we hear is not always the same. For example a few people might have the same favorite song but for different reasons, One might like the crazy guitar solo that goes all over the place super fast, while the other might just like the soft steady beat that the drummer makes, while another loves the message that the singer is trying to get across.
There is no genre of music that absolutely loves, I hate rap while millions of others love it, I love techno while millions of others think that it's stupid. It is all about that person's personality. Another thing is live music vs. pre-recorded(cd's, youtube, ipods, etc.) some people need to feel the music in their body, not just through their ears, and so they much prefer to go to concerts or clubs to hear music rather than on an ipod or zune.
Everything is all relative, there is no one right song for everyone, and there is no song that everyone hates, and that is because no one is exactly the same.

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