Music as Memory

A little practice on my English

 

Christine reviewed some ways in which humans retrieve our own data through contextual cues. We strongly associate memories with smell, which is a truly biological phenomenon. However, her point is more about short term memories, and i found myself retrieve my old memories with music, different music triggers different periods of my life, songs from M2M always bring my back to my fresh year of university, when i trained swimming during the winter vacation, and the atmosphere, smell, taste of food all come together, also some details like i overtook by a senior in a turning, and i mentioned it on her blog and she replied, or the other senior has told sth. etc.

another one it Dvorak’s cello concerto by Du Pre and Mendelssohn’s violin concerto in E minor by Mullova, they are my day endings when i was in high school, studied with Bach cello suites and enjoy more plentiful music before sleep, the sound of violin and cello bring sentiments to me, sometimes it’s vivid and happy but always with a little sorrow inside, matched my life that time, 99 happiness but a pity.

Nightwish is one of my favorite band, even in post-Tarja era, i like Anette as well, and not only Nightwish, other bands such as After Forever, Epica, Elis and a lot songs from Bill Board remind the day in Delft, but Wish Master and Over the Hill and Far Away belong to Ukraine.

Feng Wang represent memories for my last year in university, usually played her song on daybreak times, that’s just before i went to sleep, or cycling at midnight with songs by Hayashibara Megumi, especially her “Midnight Blue”, so matched my minds that time, it’s really great days but maybe still with some regrets, that i did so terrible on many things and i wish i could retry, but that’s not possible, missed so much on the final year as a student.

Military life i passed with Utada Hikaru and Richie Jen. I have Utada’s voice with me when i was on shift, which each was twelve hours long, and Richie’s Sorrow Pacific just our mood on that islet.

Those music also contained not only sounds, all the connected memories spread out at the moment each one of them started, it does feeling amazing, and i realized that music really played an important role in my life, like aura of life and i can imagine my life without it, or i can and it’s just boring……