Peter Vigil's Painting, Celle-No Hands Required

I now realise that the Arts, including music, creates opportunities to engage, inspire and enrich our lives. Music making and responding can challenge, provoke responses and enrich our knowledge and understanding of ourselves, our communities and the world.

To understand why music is a product of human intention and perception, we start by defining or understanding the nature of music. Music is defined as the sounds or combination of vocals and instruments in a way that it produces a form of beauty, expression, or harmony of emotions. Arguably, people compose or make music through many ways (Resnicow, Joel E., 20-29). While some people might compose music without incorporating instruments, others use instruments to produce beats that match with their sounds. However, to argue that the

Through the use of techniques and themes, a composer is able to create distinctively visual images when describing the setting and characters in detail which help us to understand and form meaning of what the composer is trying to convey in their texts. The use of techniques such as body language, symbolism, lighting, music and photographic background slides create distinctively visual images same with themes that are being used within the texts such as truth which is evident in the dramatic text ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ by John Misto, the song ‘Lose Yourself’ sang by Eminem, and the film ‘The Eye’ directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud featuring Jessica Alba. These three texts demonstrate how the responders are impacted and what is

My life would be incomplete without performing music. I’ve spent time, in concert bands, in bell choirs, in school and church choirs, and singing, playing in music festivals, and in pit bands trying not to laugh my head off at the actors’ improvisations. But the art that truly speaks to my soul does not lie in creating music, it lies in dancing to it.

Throughout the many years of time, music has been associated with the lives of humans. Ranging from the oldest recorded music in 1888, The Lost Chord, to Motherese, or the way that mothers “sing” to their babies to communicate to them, to our modern music of radio stations blaring our favourite song while we drive from place to place. Music has found its place within human lives, intertwining its existence with ours. Incredibly enough, humans have found a way to harness music with our very hands and create elegant melodies from tools. Beginning with instruments that look like a guitar, instruments that look like a flute and instruments that look like a drum, we began making controlled music with rhythms and harmonies. As years passed and civilization began to grow, musicians came to be. These ancient musicians played music for others on the instruments that they would make and performed for many.

I’m a music lover. You will never catch me without my headphones, I’ve always been someone who listens to music not just for the lack of boredom but for the motivation music conveys. Music is important to me because it triggers sensory feedback from strong vibrations that express poetry of emotions from the words an artist provides. In the novel Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older the author captures how artists can convey power through art. The amount of appreciation I share with music would be as equivalent to what the Shadowshaper share with a piece of canvas.

Music’s power is usually described as being able to instill an emotion in its listeners. But music comes to mean even more in The Power of One. It represents someone’s spirit - Doc’s. The music he creates is a metonym for his thoughts and inner spirit. Music, especially Doc’s piano, is a physical representation of his life and spirit, revealing music to be the force that Doc uses to communicate and connect with the rest of the world.

I believe that the world is our Instrument and that we are the chords composing the songs of our experiences. When I think of art, I think of how historically, music has been used as an Instrument to not only rejoice, but also to tell a story of the adversities that took place during a given time.

Although this musical metamorphosis seems benign and meaningless, It can easily be related it to my life. As music has reached new heights as time has gone by, so have I. Each musical period has unique traits, but they flow into each other effortlessly. As I have grown, I have changed little by little, becoming who I am today.

Susan Fast’s research largely revolves around the famous English rock band, Led Zeppelin, and their psychological and emotional impact on their fans. Through ethnographic research and semiotic analysis done at several of their concerts, Fast was able to identify how the band creates such an impactful relationship with their fans. Within her article ‘The Wanton Song: The Riff and the Body’, the scholar mentions the work of Richard Leppert who argues for the importance of watching how music is made. “How the performers look and gesture, how they are costumed, how they interact with their instruments and with one another, how they regard the audience, how other listeners heed the performers” all combines to create the agency that is human sight, and that these experiences may mediate gaps between the celestial nature of musical sounds and the physical requirement needed to make them (Fast, p.145,

I am normally struck by the meaning of a song, the lyrics and how they are delivered. Yet when I met David Knight, a soloist who focuses entirely on his skills playing acoustic guitar, I was able to learn why musicians are so drawn to the instrumental aspect of their work.

Music “fulfill(s) different needs and ways of being human” (Turino 1). Music is not just something that people listen to; it is so much more (Turino 1). Music is utilized in ways that range from waking people up in the morning as an alarm to catalyzing a daily workout. Charles Sanders Peirce created a theory of signs that are called semiotics (Turino 5). Bruce Springsteen’s “Waitin’ on a Sunny Day” encapsulates Charles Peirce’s semiotic tools and allow me to have a better understanding of this piece of music.

The artist used two-dimensional to three-dimensional elements. For this piece the materials are; wood acrylic, ink, powder steel and hardware. A simple and creative method by painting the edges of the wood. He made the wood's contours looks like were perfectly cut, but actually they were painted. Natural colors and aesthetics using the floor as the scenario. A visual to the actual lines is the way they're put together.

Pieter Bruegel the elder painted Landscape with the Flight into Egypt in 1563. In the oil painting, the Holy Family appears to be traveling through a mountainous region with rivers. Mary, who is draped in red, stands out as she is riding the donkey pulled by Joseph. She appears to be clutching baby Jesus, an allusion to their fleet to avoid persecution. As they make their way to Egypt, the landscape includes wide valleys, jagged mountains, and blue rivers. The landscape is enhanced and exaggerated in order to emphasize the biblical story. The composition of the painting exemplifies characteristics of Renaissance art. The painting depicts individualism, focusing in on specific people instead of groups. The painting emphasizes nature, as seen

There is an increasing mutual exchange as the synthetic and the human-made equally invades what we once thought of as natural. In electronic music, the human element that people input in their work is crucial to say the least. People provide the unpredictable pieces in their work to make it stand out from the rest. Most robotic or technologic generated music often is in the form of a pattern. Without human interface, electronic music, for the most part, is predictable. When electronic music is played without the human element, a sense of something that is missing usually occurs. Today, technological advances allow electronics to replace most of the human interactions. Now technology can mimic the sounds of non-electronic instruments. Instruments such as the flute, violin, and guitar are just some of these mimicked sounds that could be replaced. In this “genre” the human body is often held as a relatable tool. The audience notices the human element and realizes that they can create such works as well. Electronic music to some may feel that it is missing the human component in the normalized concept of seeing the artist. However, when developing the art itself, electronic music, whether it be in live performances, editing the material, or commercializing the music for use, the human element is still very prominent. The human component is implicated in music directly or indirectly.