Music and Life

Is music what we think it is? Is it not just a numerical and mathematical algorithm of sounds at a decibel level that humans can perceive enough to experience. Do we receive joy from it because it is familiar or because it is unusual. Compared to most things in life from when we developed as humans it, is unlike anything. We developed instruments to make sounds that are pleasurable. As someone with mild synthesia it is sometimes wonderful to see blue and green hues with nostalgic and emotional soft music. I first realized I was different with this when watching a movie very dear to me for a lot of reasons maybe this is the biggest one but nonetheless it means a lot to me. Star Wars Episode 4 A New Hope is this movie. There is a rather emotional scene in the movie when the main character and hero of the epic, Luke Skywalker, looks out to the sunset with a sense of longing and the music that accompanies it gives a sense of pure nostalgia and longing. I get the same reaction every time I watch this scene. I get goosebumps, my eyes tear up and I start seeing vivid blues and greens and then as the short scene is coming to a close I get a warm feeling and everything becomes engulfed in a bright orange. I believe having this way of experience with sounds and music and connection with it I find myself sometimes wondering why we evolved this ability. It is a way to communicate emotions without speaking and maybe the next step toward our evolution to be able to understand one another better for the betterment of our race as a whole. I find it interesting that most people that develop synesthesia come from a scande-wegen or Icelandic region and I am a descendent of niether.