Saturday, November 20, 2010

Hearing Music Everywhere!

I ran across Charles Spearin's "The Happiness Project" a while ago (I think it was on CBC Radio 2's "the Signal"). The idea totally intrigued me: He had interviewed a whole bunch of his neighbours about what they thought it meant to be happy in life. Then he listened to the natural tonality in their conversations and turned it into music.

I know it's totally outside of most of our musical boxes, but you gotta check this out:


So?

2 comments:

LISA Sawatzky said...

That is really kind of cool! I've never thought about vocal tonality and speech itself being a form of music. Interesting...

Jess said...

huh... very interesting!