For the ted talk I chose Benjamin Zander’s “How Does Music Transform us? In Zander’s ted talk he says that music has the power to be a transformational. His form of art in his ted talk is music. Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time. Music can do so much, just like other forms of art it creates emotions. When music is being played it does not go through the brain it goes through the molecules. In other words it awakens the expierence in a way that can actually lead to consequential outcome, music can make people do things and change things. Another power of music is its the greatest bringer together. Listening to music alone is great but when a whole classroom full of students is listening its differnt and you can just feel it. He also mentions that music is a story, he says “it opens the emotional pause to all of life’s expierence….thats the purpose of transformation” Music can help change and help people grow. Thats why I like Mr. Zander believe the music is the greatest art and can do the most.
You do a wonderful job listing the different potencies of music, but what about what music CAN’T do. Do these benefits still matter when placed in the context of a world full of physical suffering?