Music Can Be Art Too

     So i chose APlace Where You Go To Listen as the art pice i am writing about. It is composed by John Luther Adams and took from 2004-06 to create. He created it by using computers to make sounds corresponding with what is happening seismically and the fluctuations of the earths magnetic field. The room is located on the second floor of the museum next to the large rock carving of the polar bear. Inside the walls are white with a high ceiling, and covering one wall is a slightly curving square depression in the wall with colored lighting set into the top and bottom. Best of all there is a wooden bench in the middle of the room so you can just sit and listen.  On the walls are about ten speakers resonating the sound of the earth into the room. The bell like sounds comes from the top and that represents the earths magnetic field, then there is booming bass like sounds in the background which represents the seismic activity. The colored wall then sets the mood corresponding with the sun and moon's movement. All together i think room and music are perfectly put together to represent the sounds of the earth.
       Now on to the question i'm supposed to answer about this pice of art. What do you feel or experience as you view the image? My feeling for this pice runs very deep as i sat in that room. I felt like through listening to the music i became one with the earth and was able to bask in all its glory. I some how felt the music was a part of my life as it should be with every ones. It described what i lived on (the earth) and the air that i breathed in what no words could explain. I could look and hear how the earth was feeling through looking at the screen of color, and listening to the music before me. When i left the room all i could think of as i looked at all the other art in the museum was how that one room could have such an impact on how i now viewed the land scape around me. So before i left the museum i went back to listen more. I could tell right away that it was playing a sightly different tune, and it made me think of how the world is an ever changing place and that no moment is the same. Walking outside and actually looking at the landscape and the sky above me amazed me even more from when i walked in, i felt like i could still hear the resonating sound of the ground and the bell like chiming above me. "Everything around me is so alive" i said to my self, it made me truly appricate life and the change it goes through. That room will have an everlasting effect on my view of the land around me, and whats great about it is that i can carry it with me anywhere i go and know that the earth speaks to everyone of us. We are always apart of its existence, just as its existence is a part of ours, both deserve the greatest respect.