The Human Element Of Music

Post by **Karou Ariyen** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:18 pm

We all know the elements that make up the human Or mithra bodies. adding the element of harmonic music and resonating tones that appeal to your minds complete the element. Why am I talking like a psycho or a nutcase? I have a point here.

Music drives us. It keeps us going. It's in everything around us. Not one person can say music isnt a part of their life. Just listening to a bird chirp its melody is music. What I would like to know is this:

Is music a part of your life and do you think it's a part of the worlds we live in? I wanted a debate that would maybe get people thinking. Rules are simple no trashing other posters Please. First sign of that and I'll have to ask Shirai to lock the thread. I want to hear everyone's views on the subject.

Don't ask for mine, I'll post it later on in the thread, when im not running at 8 hours no sleep.

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:48 pm

Music used to not just be a big part of my life, but my main source of income.

Way back in the beatnick/hippie era, I was a folk singer. I made my living singing in sleazy coffee shops and passing a basket for the listeners to throw money into. (New York cabret and licencing laws are infamous in the number of restrictions on owners and entainers. They do not allow busnesses without proper licenses to pay their entertainment, and the owners of those sleazy coffee shops would never dream of breaking the law.

) My gutar hardly ever left my side.

Hich hiking across the country, music would bring me traviling funds, and for many years it suplemented my income.

I am an excelent free form swing dancer, but for that it isn't the music so much as the beat. I will happily dance to music I would not pause a second for on the radio.

Today dancing is about the only place music affects my life, and I hardly ever go out dancing anymore.

Game, movie, and anime soundtracks are 98% of the music in my life currently, and those are periphial to the entertainment they accompany.

If music drives us, currently I am walking.

Pheonixhawk · Post by **Pheonixhawk** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:47 pm

Music is just something to listen to if im bored. Other than that, I dont consider it to be a part of my life at all.

Tianshii · Post by **Tianshii** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:54 pm

Just tossing this out: what about deaf people?

As for music in my life.. I totally agree. Whatever mood I'm in, there is some song to accompny it. OR better yet, songs that can counter negative things... If I am tired (say playing as WHM in an exp party) I try to put on faster songs to keep me goin'.
This is also helpful if I start to get sleepy at work or whatever.
I have a whole different set of songs I enjoy if I'm flying cross-country...
Another set to sleep by...
Another to put on to psyche myself up for something...
My iPOD (and before that CD player) has been a life saver when I'm at work and I don't want to listen to the incessant SMACK TALKING by the scandalmongers.
Also, if I hear something on the radio or at a friends or out at a bar/club, it evokes something whithin me

Tsybil:

YOU ARE SO FREAKIN' COOL!!! /bow
Have you ever recorded any of your music? I'de love to hear it!!

Not to mention see ya swing dance!!! I've tried that, it's soo fun!! I just make it up based on what I have seen other people do... I haven't had much formal training in that style

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:29 am

Tianshii wrote:Tsybil:
Have you ever recorded any of your music? I'de love to hear it!!
Not to mention see ya swing dance!!! I've tried that, it's soo fun!! I just make it up based on what I have seen other people do... I haven't had much formal training in that style

Thanks Tianshii.

Nope, never recorded, and my singing carrer was over long before CDRs and web publishing.

Never had any dance training either save for about 2 months of tap when I was a kid and a few lessons when I was a teen when ALL dances had steps and things.

Discovered swing in my 30s, kinda picked it up as I went along, much like my sex education.

There is East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, and then there is Swing for the rest of us. The great part is people with formal swing training don't look down their noses at those of us who don't know steps but can still dance.

If I take any formal dance classes now, it will be in Tango.

Remind me to tell a few tales from my gloriously mispent youth someday.

Sakino · Post by **Sakino** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:37 am

music = emotion

That's all I have to say on it.

Okuza · Post by **Okuza** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:34 am

"Music" is merely the perception of a pattern at the emotional level. Move that up a bit into concious thought and you have composition. Abstract it and you have Mathematics.

I think it's imprecise to say "you're made of music." Music is a wave. It's not particles.

Post by **Karou Ariyen** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:49 am

Quite similar to a presentation of an Argone National Labratory employee on open house, using mathmatics to compare to music and how it relates to research, but Yes true, and I should have some stuff ready for mp3 conversion soon

Post by **Sugami** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:41 pm

Tsybil wrote:Remind me to tell a few tales from my gloriously mispent youth someday.

Mispent and mostly mispelt too (referring to your first post)

sorry

First thing I do after turning on my computer is loading up Winamp and playing my current favourite choon (Fuel - Metallica, f*cking A!) before letting it random through my playlist.

Without my sexy MuVo^2 I'd be even more bored at work, so glad they let me listen to music

Got my electric guitar last Tuesday

I'd put pics up but no digital camera

think it's a Fender Squire Stratocaster or something

I'm still striggling with it but the whammy bar is so much fun

can hammer out a "bad" version of the opening riff to Smoke on the Water, good fun being able to partly play songs which I enjoy listening to. I actually sat down and just "jammed" on it the whole of yesterday after work. Not playing a computer game in a day is a rare occasion for me

Guess I haven't really answered the question

I could live without music I reckon but I'd be a hell of a lot more bored.

MittensValefor · Post by **MittensValefor** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:57 am

Remember highschool where the #1 question was "what sort of music do you like?"

Music defines you.

Post by **Karou Ariyen** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:00 pm

We (Our band Wolfmoon Warriors) Just finished studio recording of our new single, Broken Hearts. as for conversion, well it needs some major audio cleaning up, since my friend's studio has outdated really horrible machines

a lot of hissback during the recording. For our next track. Watch Karou Play Cowbell For Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper. Coming Never.