046: I am grateful for music

Last week when Carol and I were in Seattle we went to Paul Allen’s Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum. The photo above is of the amazing guitar sculpture inside empsfm. The extensive  and carefully crafted exhibits were nothing short of amazing. We were completely blown away by the Jimi Hendrix exhibit and Guitar Gallery: The Quest for Volume. It’s not every day you get to see Hendrix’s smashed and burned guitars and the Fender that Eric Clapton played Layla on.

I love music; almost all kinds. You name it, from blues to classical, grunge to pop, ambient down-tempo to heavy metal, punk rock to holiday classics, I listen to almost all of it. Yes, I even like twangy, yodelly, old cowboy country and western music, but I tend to draw the line at “new country” (whatever the heck that means).

Thanks to a few pieces of software I can keep at least a partial record of the music I listen to over the last few years via last.fm. Here’s my library at the site.

What is music?

Music is “an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color; the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both.” [source]

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