I wonder if noise dumbs one down. Sound vibrations taking up too much attention inside the brain. Distraction from scope of job. Music puts into harmonic order seemingly dissonent tones and it is pleasing. When music becomes noise it is brain deadening by deceiving the mental receptors. It is focus and energy spent without much uplift of spirit.
Civilizations have
had circular stadiums fitting 10's of thousands in attendance for
centuries. Theater also provides a stage
where the endless drama of Our Good Guys
vs. Their Bad Guys and a vocal cheering/booing crowd in the Greek chorus as the
plot line plays out. The power of the
natural human voice is apparent in these situations. In sport, the lift a team gets can be
attributed to the affirmative support from those in attendance. Home teams win
more often. I deduce the inverse would
be true as well. Who goes to work and
gets Boo-ed or demeaned in public? To
perform an athlete has to ignore this behavior, but it has to get under the
skin as the angry, insulting tones enter into the cellular body. (Say it ain't
so, Joe?) In a theater, cheers/boo-s are
in a known stage setting, being part of the play and knowing the outcome going
in. The NFL isn't any different, I
suppose.
If people sang
together more often (perhaps on Sunday afternoon?), it would be a better
world. Instead of the dissonant voices
of cheers/boo-es, a solid mass of harmonic frequency and tone would heal people
in every way. Singing together makes presence beautiful. Making music together makes happiness.
Genuine human
voice, not digital representation or amplified/electrified noise stripped of
soul is needed.
Digital noise, some
posing as music, comes from every direction fills our heads and is sapping our
ability to think through cognitive dissonance.
Acoustic
instruments, drums and dancing are music therapy towards good mental health, as
well.
The joy of music,
uplifting spirit since time immemorial.
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