He Shoots!

My score is a deconstruction of a piece of sheet music. I took apart the picture, separating the buildings, the ground and the sky as if they were the lines of music. The Captain Underpants picture tells you at what pace the sound should be played at, a light hearted, and happy pace. In the lines of the music you see the notes. In the back you see a contemplative person. This is the instrument being played. Your Ears. Oscar the Grouch represents the trash truck, the hydraulics, the dumping, and the bin thudding. Oscar the Grouch is a representation of the dirty, gravely, industrialization of the trash truck. The car that is barely visible is representative the barely visible cars that pass by making short quick vague impressions of sound. The officer buckle in the front represents the clacking noise of the people walking by me. They made sharp large impressions of sound. the clacking was typical of the clack of a marching soldier. Loud, strong, and organized.

Quickie

-Ted Leo is the tits. THAT IS ALL

-Giant props to Brett McKenzie for winning an academy award. Big fist pump for that one I met him once. After a Flight of the Conchord's concert I got to go to the after party in downtown LA and sat at the same table as him. I am very cool. I know.

Ocean of Noize

bird- chirpy, serenading,  mating calls, sonourus
car- engine, breaks, rickety engine
Footsteps- Ms. Ramone, High Heels, trainers on brick
Errol- CJ's or Panda
Mtume- LOUD
coughing- raspy, throaty
Golf Carts- Grisly, like a tractor
Pen- Clicking, scratching paper
Clearing nose- snoty
Garbage truck- dumping, hydraulic, beeping
Airplane- Fade in, fade out, NEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW, jumbo.

And the Day Never Ended.

Band : Tame Impala
Song: Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind?
Album: Innerspeaker (2010)
Tame Impala come from Perth Australia and make psych music. "Tame Impala make psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock music." This band uses psychic sonic sounds and a filter similar to that of MGMT. Tame Impala are Kevin Parker, Dom Simper and Jay Watson. Kevin and Dom have been musical companions for a good 9 years, having met at music class in high school at age 13. Tame Impala are one of the best modern examples of psych music to come from Australia. They have a quick beat but come up with a very smooth song that never seems rushed thanks to the guitars which feature elongated notes. 

Artist: Seu Jorge

Song: Oh! You Pretty Things

Album:Life Aquatic Studio Sessions

Seu Jorge is a Brazilian singer song writer and actor who was featured on the Wes Anderson film, "Life Aquatic" soundtrack. On this album he covered many of David Bowie's classics, for example, Oh! You Pretty Things. Seu takes Bowie's largely orchestrated, pop songs (which are fantastic in their own right) and strips them down to a simple acoustic guitar. Seu does what I consider to be a great song cover. Instead of just singing the song the song the same as the artist before, Seu adds his own personal touch by singing some of the lyrics in Portugese and stripping down the large orchestration that is typical of a Daivd Bowie song. 

Deaf Jam

In the Ted Talk posted above the speaker talks about how she listens to music through her whole body, through her cheekbones her hands, etc. This is almost directly contradicts how most people perceive music now. If you were to take a poll on what kind of speaker people listen to music, a large portion would be through head phones. Now apart from the problem of the loss of hearing, most people would consider this to be an inherently positive and  effective way of listening to music. Head phones block out the sound and helps us to focus solely on the music being played through our iPod or computer or whatever.
Now Im just going to put it out there that I don't generally listen to music through my headphones. One reason is because I'm mostly too cheap to actually go out and buy a quality pair, but the main reason for my lack of headphone use is because for me music is more than just the sounds coming from the speakers.   Professional DJ, DJ Browntown describes the music he plays as "soul music". When  he says "soul music" he is not talking about the "soul" genre, he is instead talking about the kind of music he plays. Music that makes you feel something; music that either makes you want to get up and dance or makes you want to sit back and relax on a beach. This kind of soul music is a total experience. To me music is not so much of an escape as much as it is a tone or mood that strikes us, something social. There is a reason we enjoy large concerts as opposed to a band playing in front of just us. I say music is social, but this is not a pro music piracy piece. I just feel like music should be felt outside of just the ears. Music can be expressed through dance, discussion, or just the mere act of listening with a friend. When we unplug our ears we can for example, experience the intensity of the bass of a song through our chest, or feel the serenading notes of the guitar through our fingers.


-Tim Brown
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"He Has Van Gogh's Ear For Music"

What is listening to music? What is hearing music? Do we hear music differently than deaf people?
According to Wesley Snipes in White Men Can't jump we can sometimes listen to the music, but we will not hear the message, Deaf people don't hear it at all. instead they experience music. They do it through sight, or feel. They can feel the music, because at it's very basic form, music is just vibrations. They can get the message of the song. Broad sounds become highly specific experiences. Music either takes micro ideas such as specific locations or times an the listener turns those micro themes in the piece into a macro emotion, or the opposite happens. Mostly in classical, or non vocal pieces, macro themes such as time, are played with such great nuance (or at least the good pieces are) that the listener experiences an emotion that is highly personal to the listener.