Music Score

My music score begins with the picture of the traffic in the middle. It's in the middle because the traffic noise was present all throughout the ten minutes. As you move outward from the middle picture, you will see other pictures that are small, large, and possibly faded. The small and large ones relate to their distance from where I was standing, and if they are ontop of other pictures, such as the birds, that means they were present when other sounds were also present. The faded images are those of sounds that were close to me, but were not very loud. The abstract pictures that are red and that have the falling leaves on them represent the wind rustling through the trees and just the sound of the wind itself, which was rather calming and helped me concentrate on the other sounds around me during the 10 minutes of listening. Other than that, the pictures themselves represent what they show, like the birds and the small dogs and the helicopter and the plane, with the exception of the black and white photo of the people standing around. That one is faded, so it came from farther away, and it represents people walking by while they were in the middle of a conversation.

Life Without Music

This past weekend I went to Vermont to look at Saint Michael's College. I took my iPod with me, but I never tuned into my vast library of music. Now that I think about it, it feels like something was missing. Without music, life feels akward, as if something is missing. Music helps calm you down, and it helps you ruminate over the days events.

Loyola Sounds

Bus and Cars--screaching rubber, engines roaring, close
birds chirping--quick, sharp clicks, far
construction--saws through metal and wood, far
wind--leaves rustling, close
kids playing--happy laughter, far
the switchboard inside the building--a sharp, hollow click, close
cans--metal clanging against each other, moderate
gates closing--metal scraping on metal, moderate
dogs barking--small dogs yapping, very short, far
birds flapping their wings--muffled noise, far
people walking and talking--loud talking, close

Sean Faust

Hearing and Listening

Hearing is simply the act of perceiving sound by the ear. If you are not hearing-impaired, hearing simply happens. Listening, however, is something you consciously choose to do. Listening requires concentration so that your brain processes meaning from words and sentences. Listening leads to learning.Most people tend to be "hard of listening" rather than "hard of hearing."

Musicians and Deafness

http://djembeslappin.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-do-deaf-enjoy-music.html.

I so wish I could understand and listen to music just by feeling the virbations the instruments create while being played. I know the best way to feel the music vibrations is to listen to deep and heavy bass and drums. I sometimes feel the bass vibrations through the steering wheel as I'm driving and when it's crazy bass, I feel the vibrations coming out of the speakers and my pants move a little bit. It's an amazing feeling. But if I ever go deaf, it would be really, really hard for me. I like to talk a lot and hear what people have to say, and I listen to loud-ish music every day for long intervals throughout the day. If I ever lose the ability to hear, I don't know what I would do. I definately know I would really annoy my neighbors or the people in the cars next to me because I will be blasting music with heavy bass so I could feel the vibrations. I think it would be the coolest thing if there was a portal or machine like thing you can walk into, put in a song, and there were no lyrics. Just heavy vibrations. Your entire body would feel the sensations of the music, and I think that would be one of the best feelings ever. That's why I enjoy going to concerts and standing close to the speakers. The pure power coming out of those things once my chest bounce back and forth and my hair moved a little bit, and I couldn't stop smiling and yelling at the top of my lungs. However, I'm a little hesitant to blast my car bass that loud. I don't want to totally destroy my speakers in my car. But it's dissapointing, for my bass can go much louder and heavier in my car, but I don't want to push it because I don't want to have to get new speakers. All in all, if I were deaf, I wouldn't mind that much when it comes to music. I would just crank it up, feel the vibrations, and have total disregard to those next to me. I want to listen to my music, and I'll do it, whatever means necessary.