Most people can see and perceive the world around them. However, it is the sounds that we hear that connect the visual experience that we see through our eyes. The sound of a wave crashing or a baby crying will always give you a perception of what is around you. Auditory response is even more sensitive than our eyesight. By taking experimental sounds from the world around us and placing them in tracks could this count as music?
What about the sounds that we hear every day around us? "Music to my ears" is usually a quote referenced to something that is not generally related to music. But why do we say that it's music? I believe that music is no different from sounds in that if an array of sounds is compelling enough to pull an emotional response out of the listener, it can be counted as music.
David Dunn in his article wants to take the song of birds and deconstruct the materials and attributes of music to explore intelligence of non-human life. He also wishes to create an environmental language as opposed to environmental music. He believes that all life around us operates on their own frequency of vibrations and thus each being lives in its own separate universe. We associate sounds differently than birds or animals.
On May 19, 1985, Entrainments 2 was composed in a wilderness site using microphones that were walked around in a circle to symbolize an attempt to be in contact with the "spirit of a place".
This also was another breakthrough in the general composition of music theory in that instruments were not used and only recording of sound around them and playback electronically was allowed.
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