Last night I caught my son on film doing one of his favorite things, watching his mobile. We've tried all sorts of different types of music but none of them work like his mobile. Which is kind of a funny thing because it's simply a music-box-windup type machine i.e. the sound quality is pretty poor. He hasn't learned about sound quality yet though and doesn't seem to care. Whenever he hears his mobile start, regardless of how upset he is, he immediately calms down.
For the past few months I've been thinking about what an impact music has on us, or at least myself. I like angry music when I'm angry, sad music when I'm sad and so forth. Most of the time listening to this music only makes things worse or if I decided to listen to something happy then it would be a good thing. Music is interesting because it is a background type of medium, rarely do we let it take all of our time but rather it hangs out with us while we do other things. I think this is one of the reasons that we don't notice the effects of music very often.
I'm glad that it does have an effect though otherwise I wouldn't be sleeping as well as I am now, which isn't saying much.
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