Brian Eno's Furniture Music

Buddhism has a concern for the environment because if the environment is in danger then there is no harmony for all living things. In order for all living things to live in harmony one must take care of the environment. Buddhism stated that man himself can be polluted psychological, and if he is then he would pollute the world because of this. One must be unpolluted within to stop pollution on the earth to have harmony for all living

I have grown up with a mindset common to most of humanity, that the world is our property to rule and therefore we must conquer and control it by any means. With this mindset I and most of humanity view the earth as a tool for our satisfaction and a stepping stone to our self-defined greatness. Having read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, I have begun to challenge this belief as he explains this mindset through the concept of Mother Culture. Quinn describes a world of Takers and Leavers. Takers are people who mold the world around them for their own benefit, and Leavers are those who live in harmony with the environment, as part of the ecosystem. For the Takers, Mother Culture maintains a lifestyle that is proven to be unhealthy and self-destructive.

Without the human intention, perception, and interpretation of sound, then the existence of music would be imaginary. Music includes talking words in a way that the person creates a sound that is made with the intention of being music (Deutsch, Diana 10-13, Justus & Timothy., 33-40). Besides, people can perceive silence and sound and put them together so as to call the outcome music. In Bakan’s fourth proposition, he identifies the approach as the Human Intention and Perception (HIP) approach (Resnicow, Joel E., 10-22). In other words, the proposition tries to suggest that music is inseparable from the makers; or more specifically the people who perceive and experience it. Bakan gives numerous examples to show that music is a product of human intention and perception. This paper conducts research and gives appropriate examples to show that music is only identified as music if the person is making it has the intention for their words to be music.

A good example that support the theory that “Western Society assumes that humanity and nature are disconnected and that the environment is subordinate to human needs.” are first, Puritans belief that they had the God given right to subdue both nature and any Native Americans they saw, which was all for the glory of expanding the Christian society. A second example is the key beliefs of d’Holbach’s and other philosophers that “humanity towers above nature because of humanity’s capacity for thought and rational decision making. With these abilities, people could decode nature’s laws and more efficiently tame it for the betterment of society.” Colonist believed that the environment existed solely to support human needs.

Growing up in Switzerland and Oregon, I learned that nature is greatly valued and it is necessary to respect the environment to prevent impending environmental collapse. Living in a society whose morals and ethics include

Humans are born from and return to earth at death; human beings and nature are bound up each other. Yet, the technological modern world has shaped humans to be oblivious of nature and the ethnocentrism has positioned human beings above all other things. Nature has become resources for people and nothing more than that. David Abram, the author of the Ecology of magic, travels into the wild, traditional land in search of the relation between magic and nature; the meaning nature holds in the traditional cultures. Abram intends to communicate his realization of the magical awareness of the countless nonhuman entities and the necessity of the balance between the human communities and the nature to the readers, hoping the Western technologized

In this part of the assignment the author will explain the contribution of contrasting psychological theories to the understanding of two specific behaviours

According to William Cronon’s “The Trouble with Wilderness”, the main concerns with the wilderness term being humanly constructed and lack of concern with the local environments. Cronon emphasize much of the historical and philological meanings of wilderness as a human construct via spiritual and religious perspectives. He desired for people stop putting so much emphasis on the above and beyond that is out of our reach and focus on the present. He pushed this into the idea of one should start putting emphasis and care into one’s own environment rather than just focusing on environments beyond the local one. He believes change should start locally.

Music has become such an important part of people’s lives today. One cannot walk down the street without seeing earbuds in a person’s ears or hearing the bass to a radio in someone’s car. But how did music become such an important and constant part of the lives of so many? What do artists have to go through to reach their audience? At the beginning of musical development from the medieval Georgian chant to the arias of Mozart and fugues of Beethoven, people could only listen to music in a live setting. This is how most performers would make their money. According

The people nowadays also abuse on what nature can provide to them. People are influenced by the western Culture, Man is more powerful and can have dominion over nature and that nature as they see become merely an instrument to satisfy human needs and wants. This kind of thinking or we can say attitude towards nature is called the “Anthropocentric Attitude”. Man reduce the value of nature as it is and it’s important because nature has made all things specifically for the sake of man and that the value of non-human things in nature is merely instrumental. An opposite thinking would be the Eastern Culture, for they value nature very well and they treat nature being one with them. This thinking or attitude is known as “Ecocentric

In life we are all confronted with the idea of nature along with society. Although both have their pros and cons they work together to give us freedom and order among individuals.

Ambient music is an important development in the form of thinking and reasoning that allows people to understand how the setting may be transformed. Brian Eno, a musician famous for his album Ambient 1: Music for Airports was hit by a car and throughout his recovery discovered a new way of hearing music. Eno described his album being as “as ignorable as it is interesting” (Hewett), stating that although it may sound like a “recipe for boredom”, its calm and quiet nature gives it a secret appeal. He realized the production and reception of certain types of music can transform how music can be disclosed to humankind. Eno also described the two distinct meanings of ambient music. One being how listening or paying attention to music at different

In Buddhism, all living things are treated with equal respect. Ideally, everything on earth should co-exist peacefully. The environmental issues of today undoubtedly go against all Buddhist philosophy. There is a clear disconnect between humanity and the earth. People treat the earth as if it is replaceable and indestructible, which evidently contradicts the concept of impermanence. Humans abuse the earth's natural resources and as a result, we are now at high risk of losing many species on the planet.

Cybernetic is the ability of a system to regulate itself through feedback loops. Ecological systems are cybernetic systems given that they are self regulated or controlled

Over time Western culture has been obsessed with dominance. Humans over non-humans, masculinity over femininity, wealthy over poor, western over non-western cultures. Deep ecological consciousness allows us to see through the perception of this dangerous illusion. A dominant world view is centered around maximizing and using natural resources for our destructive consumerist habits. Deep ecology is about minimizing and finding harmony with nature.