Without music, would we, as human beings, be able to perceive the musical wavelengths that lighten our lives? Would we hear them as some musical philosophers have stated before?
According to John Cage, in an interview, music in all sounds around us but we choose to only focus on the pitched sounds. Though this may be a modern philosophy, not accepted before the 20th century, I believe it is still very worthwhile and one can expand one's mind by looking at natural sounds as music. Natural sounds, after all, do keep some kind of tempo and the more sporadic sounds which we humans make are like sporadic music. John Cage reports in his interview that hearing traffic is beautiful to him because it is the simple agglomeration of noise. Therefore, I do not believe we would suffer without music, but I believe we would be very different and think, perhaps more chaotically without the organized, pitched music.
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