Tuesday, June 21

Music as Biology: Summing Up

Coursera Online is an awesome place to learn, for anyone who does not have the funds, or for those who do not want to be indebted in order to learn. I wish you all the best.

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Music was created as an expression of the perception of the composer, in regard to our shared human condition. Initially, our natural biological functions limited our use of sound in music (speech and sensory organs). The advancement/evolution of technology, and our inevitable dependence on the technology we create, stimulates the attraction to industrial, mechanical, and other forms of non-biological sounds, as these sounds become more prominent and "normal" throughout human civilization. Music is an extension of our desire to understand the universe, and in searching for the answers of our external environments we begin to answer the questions about our internal universes. The biologic composition of our bodies sets the limits of our music only as far as our technology extends those limitations and parameters. I am overjoyed I took this course, because I love to experiment with music theory, and the limitations of human hearing. Cheers.

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