{"id":98,"date":"2015-10-04T19:45:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T23:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/?p=98"},"modified":"2015-10-04T19:45:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T23:45:17","slug":"my-daily-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/2015\/10\/04\/my-daily-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"My Daily Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-98-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/files\/2015\/10\/TAP-podcast-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/files\/2015\/10\/TAP-podcast-1.mp3\">http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/files\/2015\/10\/TAP-podcast-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>It seems that the more I grow up, the more repertoire my life becomes.\u00a0 When I was younger, I had no obligations.\u00a0 The day was whatever my parents made of it.\u00a0 One day they would take me to the playground, the next I would be following them to whatever errands they had planned.\u00a0 As I become older I find myself walking through the same daily routine.\u00a0 I wake up, go to class, complete my homework, and then even my extra-curricular activities at night are repeated.\u00a0 I hear the same sounds as well.\u00a0 If my day was recorded every day for a week, with the exception of weekends, all of the sounds recorded would be almost identical from the time I wake up, to the second my head hits the pillow at night and I fall asleep.<\/p>\n<p>My day starts with possibly the most appalling sound on Earth, the alarm clock.\u00a0 It is loud, obnoxious, and positively dreadful.\u00a0 The alarm clock is the American staple of the beginning of the day.\u00a0 It is how people in today\u2019s society wake up.\u00a0 Before this invention people had to be woken up in different ways, like church bells, sunlight, or even a rooster.\u00a0 The alarm is an example of how life has progressed.\u00a0 As Murray Schafer explains in his article \u201cOpen Ears\u201d,\u00a0 \u201cthere are also real flash points in history where something revolutionary was heard for the first time.\u201d\u00a0 The evolution of sounds in a civilization is a great way to learn about the culture\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>After turning off my alarm, scrolling through the latest instagrams that I had missed while sleeping, and contemplating whether or not I should even get up (I always do), I finally saunter out of bed and brush my teeth before my first class.\u00a0 The scraping of the bristles onto my teeth is the first natural sound I hear every day.\u00a0 After brushing, I quickly walk over to my favorite class, Spanish.\u00a0 I am a Spanish major, and hearing Professor Ebratts&#8217; Colombian accent is the ideal way to start my day.\u00a0 It provides comfort, because learning Spanish is what makes me happiest, and I know that it is what I am supposed to be doing with my life.<\/p>\n<p>With the little time I have in between Spanish and my second class, I spend it making the most essential drink for any college student, coffee.\u00a0 I hear the Keurig in my room working its magic, shooting water through my pumpkin-flavored K-Cup, creating the liquid that will keep me awake for the rest of the day.\u00a0 When my coffee has been made, I rush off to my next class.<\/p>\n<p>I am incapable of walking to class without listening to music, and I always start the walk with my favorite song, \u201cTime to Run\u201d, by Lord Huron.\u00a0 The reason this song is always the first played, is because it has what Roland Barthes would call \u201cthe grain of music.\u201d\u00a0 According to him, \u201cThe musical adjective [grain] becomes legal whenever an ethos of music is postulated, each time, that is, that music is attributed a regular &#8211; natural or magic &#8211; mode of signification.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cTime to Run\u201d embodies all of this.\u00a0 The song starts off with the singer explaining to his listener why he has to leave them.\u00a0 After about two minutes of singing, there is a two minute instrumental break that lets you process what has been sung.\u00a0 After the beautiful instrumental, the final two minutes of the song explain the outcome of him leaving.\u00a0 When I play this song, I always know that I am on my own journey to Geography class.<\/p>\n<p>After I finish my day of classes, I finally get to go to the most looked-forward to part of my day, crew practice.\u00a0 There is nothing better than hearing my coxswain shout out commands.\u00a0 Following practice I watch an episode of Friends, shower, and then walk up to the dorm room full of my best friends on the third floor.\u00a0 Every night before bed, a girl in that room named Cara plays us her guitar, and reads us a bed-time story.\u00a0 Although not much of my day ever changes, I would not want it to.\u00a0 I am surrounded by incredible people, doing things that I love.\u00a0 The sounds I hear on a daily basis are just reminders of how lucky I am to have so many wonderful things happen to me from day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bibliography:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll Be There for You\u201d, by The Rembrants<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime to Run\u201d, by Lord Huron<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Grain of the Voice\u201d, by Roland Barthes<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpen Ears\u201d, by Murray Schafer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the more I grow up, the more repertoire my life becomes.\u00a0 When I was younger, I had no obligations.\u00a0 The day was whatever my parents made of it.\u00a0 One day they would take me to the playground, the next I would be following them to whatever errands they had planned.\u00a0 As I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-sound2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}