Music Manifesto

Music:

Without a doubt the most amazing creation by human beings ever.  I ask anyone to name something more profound.  How long did it take to build the pyramids?  Hundreds of years?  By hundreds of thousands?  Western music is a collective effort of every human being and every humans’ ear, evolved over the entire history and existence of humanity dating back to when we stood upright and walked for the first time.  We have evolved our ears from something that originally served to caution us of predators, into something that derives pleasure from the way sounds are organized into a system that our brain can process like a puzzle.  From that, we have organized patterns of notes and tuning systems that as humans, we can manipulate with instruments–the voice being the most basic of such–to produce notes of sound, that when played back and heard by our evolved ears, produce emotional responses by our brains that help us deal with the most basic and innate feelings of love, pain, pleasure, and happiness.  Emotions and feelings so great, that our entire existence is still unable to explain them fully.