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| Just joking - it's not really me, not my buddy, and not Szigetköz |
And I've got my cool humming business going on - I'm humming some rad tunes (at least I thought so). Well anyway, it came to my mind, that the tunes I'm humming - these melodies, are probably melodies that I've heard before. I'm humming these exact notes in this exact order, because I find it to be harmonic.. but the reason I find it harmonic is probably because I've heard that composition of notes sometime, somewhere before!
And it really started bugging me - can I actually make a new tune? Or am I secretly being influenced by my previous experiences with music - and my subconscious self is generating "new" tunes out of the tunes I've already heard in my life?
I am an optimist, and I essentially believe that I am very much influenced by my previous acoustic experiences, but I am capable of generating new music.
But even if I do... even if I create something that's new for me - it probably exists already! Seriously, there's only so many tunes that sound good to people, and there are so insanely much people. There's more than 7 billion of us only today - and that's not counting those who once lived and are now dead. And all these people live on the same Earth, hearing the same natural sounds, getting the same acoustic impressions, and many of them getting the same cultural impressions.
Well it really makes me think that if you try to hum something new... it probably won't work - probably someone already felt like humming that. Which is Ok, I guess; I mean like who cares if someone, 1000 years ago, hummed the same tune?
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