Free Topic Three: Landscape through Music -Matt Latham

I picked up a new album from Best Buy the other day and the first track has the sounds of a busy street on it. It gives me a very easy impression of a flooded New York City crosswalk. Then I recalled a discussion we had at the beginning of the semester about blues music and the recurring motif of the train whistle. This is the same thing. This music was made by people who live in the city, and where the train whistle may represent loneliness, because the train is leaving not stopping the street sounds may represent the same. I love that our landscape acts through us in so many ways it is quite an interesting concept that a place can act on us, just as we can act on it.