Sonic Revelations, Sonic Revolutions

I was extremely impressed by the musicality of this piece. I have always associated sirens with fire engines and police cars and such, so they have always held slightly disturbing connotations for me. It was surprisingly easy to suspend my earlier notions of sirens and appreciate them as musical instruments. Everything we do in class pushes my personal definition of music and what is musical further and further from what it was when the semester started. The beauty of the interplay between the sirens is unmistakably musical. Every time one would start to build higher and louder, the excitement and curiosity about when it would peak and where the other sirens would be when the first one peaked kept me super alert and in tune with the music. The way the piece grew higher and louder each time the sirens grew again gave it the feeling of walking uphill. It just mounted higher and higher, and kept going after I thought it was going to start coming down. Just when it started to feel like it was vainly attempting to achieve infinity, it would back off and calm down. Every swell made me think about the fact that no matter how far it goes, it can always go farther. I really enjoyed the thought process that the music inspired.

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