It’s beautiful how it’s easy to watch something, while we have the technical ability to close our eyes.
It’s fascinating how it’s hard to listen to something, while we have no built-in ways to mute our ears.
I guess this is why we browse Tumblr or Instaterest forever but don’t with Soundcloud or Bandcamp.
Or why we loop a song over and over –so much information- but don’t to that degree with a movie or a picture.
This is what makes sound such a powerful, timeless, universal and really hard thing to comprehend, while visuals are ephemeral, personal and easy to understand.
The dissonance is that we don’t value sound so much while our entire species survived thanks to our ears accuracy. Our human intellect from our conscience –inner voice- to communication, is sound-based.
When I see kids comments on YouTube being like, “man that 71 jam is blowing me away, I never thought music could be so good I wanna cry now” it is making me feel good to dig, work and live through sound and music.
Because that universality is prodigious and through our digital lives being handed to incompatible silos, is becoming more precious everyday.