Miswanderlust
Ann 1Which Came First The Music or the Mood
February 29th 2008 04:57
Music often is just the background hiss to our daily walk, it fills the silences of the day coating the noise of life with a layer that absorbs and to a certain extent cocoons us from auditory overload. Most of the time this forms just a noise filtering sounds of life that would otherwise distract and occupy, for many, too much of our collective attention.
A dance/nightclub without music would be less than it should be, just as a bar without music would possibly just be people drinking forced to converse at a level more accurately refered to as normal and without the need to shout. Watching a movie is enhanced by the soundtrack, when it is such that we actually hear it over the action, dialog and the visual flash of the screen entertainment, the music is carefully (as far as royalties and rights allow) chosen to compliment the scene and be mood enhancing...it is chosen simply for the empathetic response it will garner from most viewers. It help creates the mood.
Does the music perpetuate or create/inspire the mood, or does our mood dictate the type of music we really chose to listen too? Do we play happy music because we are happy, or do we play happy music to make us happy? And perhaps a worse/better thing to consider, can music prolong the mood? And if so why would we continue to listen to sad songs when we are sad, are we that in need of further depression?
Is it as Rob suggests in High Fidelity that it is music that is to blame for so much of the sadness, depression, loneliness and ill feeling? Is it as he laments that music simply has alot to answer for?
Happy: Friday I'm in Love: The Cure
Sad: Space Oddity: David Bowie
Lonely: I'm Not in Love: 10CC
A dance/nightclub without music would be less than it should be, just as a bar without music would possibly just be people drinking forced to converse at a level more accurately refered to as normal and without the need to shout. Watching a movie is enhanced by the soundtrack, when it is such that we actually hear it over the action, dialog and the visual flash of the screen entertainment, the music is carefully (as far as royalties and rights allow) chosen to compliment the scene and be mood enhancing...it is chosen simply for the empathetic response it will garner from most viewers. It help creates the mood.
Does the music perpetuate or create/inspire the mood, or does our mood dictate the type of music we really chose to listen too? Do we play happy music because we are happy, or do we play happy music to make us happy? And perhaps a worse/better thing to consider, can music prolong the mood? And if so why would we continue to listen to sad songs when we are sad, are we that in need of further depression?
Is it as Rob suggests in High Fidelity that it is music that is to blame for so much of the sadness, depression, loneliness and ill feeling? Is it as he laments that music simply has alot to answer for?
Happy: Friday I'm in Love: The Cure
Sad: Space Oddity: David Bowie
Lonely: I'm Not in Love: 10CC
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