Friday, October 3, 2008
Music in Unexpected Places
This happened last week but I couldn't stop thinking about it, sometimes when my mind wonders I think about this experience. Last week one afternoon I was on my way home after class, I should have went to the ceramics studio but I was exhausted from finishing my drawing homework early in the morning. I was travelling on the bus the same bus that I travel on everyday at least two times a day for 45 minutes at a time. Usually I do a lot of thinking, sketching or reading history when I am on the bus. I was so tired that day I didn't want to do anything, I was starring into space, hearing muffled speech and percussion from other people's headphones. I was watching building and places go by that I see everyday with different scenes, and people set in front of them. Humm... how mundane. Then something clued in... I have been hearing this low, vague sound for awhile now and I finally thought, what is that?! Where is it coming from? I discovered it was coming from the back of the bus, it sounded like an experiemental trumpet piece by a mucian from a jazz band. Kind of nice, suprising and funny actually. The more that I listened the more I realised that these improve sounds coincided with the meovements of the bus, mostly the up and down movements, I started to smile. When we got to a main stop the bus driver got out and looked all aroung the bus to see if anything was wrong. I watched him. He seemed perplexed, scratched his head and got back in his seat and began to drive. The music started agian, I listened to it all the way home. Maybe the bus felt like expressing itself a bit differently that day. Later I explored this thought and wondered what the world would sound like if buses could run on various types of music, or musical instruments. What would our city sound like compared to what are current sound scape is? Maybe someone in our class could do a peice on this, I would love to hear it.
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you have inspired me to write my next blog. Its about a sound I hear one day, and to me it was music!
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