Heart sounds

1. Best of 2015 Medley- Anthem Lights This piece first stood out to me because it was a mash up of many great songs that I have listened to this past year. The songs all range in their original sounds, but when mashed together the same singers sing the song. This piece really spoke to me through the idea of it being a mixture of so many great songs and it was still a great piece. This piece has influence to the world to me because it shows that artist can recreate someone else’s song and make it…

another without transferring the particles of a medium. Some waves must travel through matter, known as the medium (mechanical waves). And when they travel through the medium they cause the particles to vibrate. Some types of mechanical waves are sound waves and ocean waves. Electromagnetic waves, on the other hand, are waves that do not need to travel through a medium. They are disturbances in both the electric and magnetic fields. These waves can travel through a vacuum (empty space) because…

In a giant room, there are speakers on the ceiling. But, they, themselves, are lost. They have no meaning. For the sounds on stage and the sounds in their hearts are strong enough to surpass the speakers on the ceiling. Turn off the mics. Turn off the lights. And the soul coming from their heads and their fingertips will knock you down. They will put you on the floor. Because their music has its own form. And the speakers on the ceiling are needed no more. The words above describe how I felt…

captivating. The easy breezy love song “Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran is a perfect representation of how R&B positively affects me. As I listen to R&B music, the sound quality grasp my attention. This genre has a very smooth and sensual sound which puts my mind at ease. What makes R&B music so essential is the powerful sounds of the instruments. When I listen to the piano, guitars,…

black eyes surveyed them, cheeks growing red. "Just one body?" he asked. No one spoke, the tension in the air rising. Michael straightened his posture, determined to hide the shaking that overtook his body. Beside him, his partner stiffened. His heart raced as the image of the little girl flew to the front of his mind, and he berated himself for leaving her. Would his moment of weakness cost…

again. I dreamt of death. My mother and father’s bony skulls were glinting at me through the blackness. I replayed the same scene over and over again: the persistent screaming in the background as a dull buzzing sounded beside my ears. And then the sound of gunshots exploding in the air as raiders crowded into our room. Their skin was imprinted with skull and dagger tattoos I watched them cock a gun at my family’s wide-eyed and shivering faces. I put my fist into my mouth to cover an incoming…

The beginning of the chapter detailed how in the beginning of time how the world is said to have been created by a single sound from God. The Bible says “in the beginning was the Word,” now we don’t know if this was truly a word or more of a “celestial vibration” but regardless, it could even apply to the secular view of the Big Bang. After the sound that that is sad to have begun the world the next record of music wasn’t…

Now nothing could remain as it once had been. The sound of fast piano arpeggios and chords, and a wistful prelude subtly fills the empty room, reverb evident as the sound waves reflect on its walls. A combination of instruments become one and create a melody so unique, even those who’ve dedicated their whole lives to the art of music cannot decipher its quality. The tones of each note, all dynamically coloured and bright move in inhuman synchronicity. This is not all. A hinted ostinato…

sunrise warmed my face and as I reached the entrance to the school, the jumbled cacophony of sound coming from the gym on the left reached my ears. Snippets of the trumpet melody would ring out and the vibration of the low tuba sound could be felt, the just sharp violin scales were sorry sounds to my ears and the range of male and female voices singing in different keys topped off the pandemonic mess of sound. Students were hustling and bustling about with instruments of all different…

The downstairs was silent, sunlight danced through the windows and I couldn’t stop the stupid smile that had spread over my face, twisting my head either side to click my neck, snatching the remote of the side table of the three seater couch my thumb hit the power button and the Samsung beeped in reply, with a grin I collapsed back onto the couch, my butt making contact with a very hard substance. A loud wheeze quickly escaped the person I had sat on. Stranger’s eyelid’s pulled back slowly…