Showing posts with label Music and Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music and Science. Show all posts
Thursday, 20 March 2014
TIME 23:29
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Mikko Chino R. Salvador / 2013-70157
Reaction Paper #7
March 20, 2014

Music has always been part of our daily lives. From the crowing of the roosters in the morning to the sound of the crickets at night, music is there. Science, also, is a big part of our lives. From the gas stoves cooking your food to the sewage and power systems we have around the world, science, too, is everywhere.

Deep within the notes played by famous artists are emotions and the totality of a music piece are just emotions and thoughts conveyed to us through music. This is what the musicians and philosophers before have done with their music. They used music as an instrument to convey science; to help us understand the complexities and the beauty of science. Through music, science is not just words or numbers forced into your brain; it’s a series of thoughts that rides with the notes of the music.

Even now, people are still using music to help people understand science. It even became a part of the pop culture from “The Big Bang Theory” theme song to the “Epic Rap Battles of History”. Ultimately, music has been a vital part of our life and we could use it to help us understand science even more.
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TIME 20:48
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by Clare Tan, 2013-14912
                  Science and music are two things that aren’t often placed together. And when they are, the result could mean anything – nerdy songs with unsingable lyrics, sci-fi movie soundtracks,
or an hour in a lecture class listening to supposedly “scientific” songs.
                Scientific songs, in this case, mostly meaning anything remotely related to outer space. Oh and with a few songs about fossils and atomic bombs thrown in.
                 Now before you quit on me and rant about how you wanted something better, about the endless possibilities that run up when you hear the phrase “science and music”, about the fact that “Fly me to the moon” is not what you pictured as a scientific song – believe me, I understand how you feel. And that’s why I’m here, writing this reaction paper about one of the strangest series of musical pieces I have ever been forced to listen to.
                 So let’s start with the good bits – what did I learn from this lecture on science and music? Well from what I managed to pick up, science and music are interrelated because science can affect the way people feel about the world, and whenever people feel anything about the world it ends up in a song. So discovering new planets in outer space leads to Holt’s “The Planets,” or detonating atomic bombs leads to songs about how atomic bombs shouldn’t be detonated. And this does, in fact, make sense.
                But even though it was proven that science and music are related, I didn’t feel like that was enough. I like music and I get science, and I just didn’t feel that the songs we listened to did either subject justice. I mean we listened to Herschel just because he was a composer who happened to have discovered Uranus. Now I can’t claim to be an expert on this, but in my opinion, discovering Uranus does nothing for your musical ability.
                And it’s not just whether I liked the pieces or not. The ones by Camille St. Saens were good. The “Fossils” piece really sounded like fossils; the aquarium piece successfully showed the light dancing on the top of the water. But I can’t help wondering, is that all that science and music can do for each other? Would pieces about furniture and trees also be considered scientific?
I don’t really know what I expected. But what I wanted was to be shown the beauty of science and of music. I didn’t want to be shown weird sci-fi songs, I wanted songs that could evoke the feeling scientists must get when they go out there and explore the world and discover things. Or at least songs that try to discover things, by being different and unique. And perhaps we could have had a little discussion on how music affects the brain or something scientific like that?

I’m probably asking too much of this particular topic, and this particular session. But somehow, I think music and science deserve at least that from me. Because they’re both so much more than a song about purple people eaters with a weird talking puppet thrown in.
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TIME 20:11
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Music takes up a huge part of our lives. From the lullabies when we were babies up to a certain genre of our choice, they played a significant role in our development. Music can be a technique to increase productivity, a tool for the exploration of academic study, or even just a form of relaxation. We always look at the specific use that, sometimes, we miss the big picture. And this is why with the thousands of music existing today, we fail to appreciate the wonder that each one is unique from the other. This big picture, is that there is an entire system that surrounds music – timbre, dynamics, texture, rhytm, and pitch, among others. In these elements, there exists more sub-groups. Aside from these, however, are social context and culture. These two factors contribute greatly into how not one form of music is exactly the same as another.


Through time, each generation are exposed to different settings, each one having a culture of their own. With this, everything that they create becomes a unique representation of their own era. This also applies to music and its forms. Among the factors, science is a heavy influencer. Most, evident or not, tackles a specific study of science whether it might be evolution, metamorphosis, or time travel. With over hundreds of topics to choose from, humankind will certainly be able to produce and increase the thousands of music forms in existence. How wonderful is that?
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TIME 00:48
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Music tugs the emotion; science draws in the explanation.
                Music is a universal language. It spans the gap between each culture and different languages. Music is also a medium where we can express what we feel. We are all connected by it and through it. It is through music that we find refuge at times. Music undesirably affects what and how we feel. We tend to listen to music to reflect our mood. We resonate with the music; we feel music.
                Science is a daily part of our lives. It has helped, and continues in doing so in discovering things which we have been completely unaware of. Science has also been aiding us in developing machines that ease our strenuous, everyday routines. All our lives it had assisted us in explaining the things we find confusing and bothersome. In line with this, in trying to explain music, we have multiple scientific theories. Meaning, music is also as complicated as any other scientific principles and theories.
                Science and Music play vital roles in our lives. Both are used to solve problems, explore and define the inevitable mysteries of life. Science can explain a lot of things, but science alone cannot create and devise all of them. Science can define music through relevant facts and ideas , but only intellect and emotion can create it.

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Monday, 10 March 2014
TIME 15:02
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Basically, the role of science is that it tries its best to help us understand life and music gives meaning to our lives. Without either one, our lives would be very different.  But come to think of it science can also give meaning to our lives and music can also help us understand our lives.

Science can give meaning to life because science makes us curious, it makes us think, it makes us discover and learn. Throughout this process we realize the beauty of life. Music help us understand our lives because music is not just sound. It is full of culture and history.


Most of us separate music and science and see no connection between them. But before, the philosophers strive to be universal men. They studied art, science, music, math, philosophy and everything under the sun. They believed that men should not just focus on one study but everything that is available, and I think we should too. 

2011-02035, Patricia Carmela V. Andayon 
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