The After Effect of Music
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hello
okay we all grew up
with music
we heard it in school
we listened to our parents old cassette
tapes
right does anyone here still know what
cassette tapes are
on the screen i think yeah
music we heard it in on
radio and old stereo
of our relatives right
and we heard our families belt out songs
on karaoke machines at every family
reunion
right as for me
i was like any other person who heard
the tune
while walking to school
it didn’t really matter it was
something from the background
all i could hear were collection of
sound
period until
one day i heard my mom strumming
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does anyone know or familiar with
okay maybe i can sing it with you or to
you
so this one
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oh
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you know when something just
clicks
it all suddenly makes sense
and everything seems like it’s been put
into places before you right
for the first time
instead of just hearing music
i listened
as i continued to hear my mom’s playing
all i could think was how sweet
it was to listen
on one’s emotion or pureness
and drawness of one’s emotions
translated through music
right she began to sing
and as she sang
um that’s when i
understand why people cry
when a specific lyric is being sung
or a song right how it
enters through every crevice
and depth of one’s soul
right i knew that on
i wanted to sing
i wanted my voice to be like a caress
and a warm embrace
i wanted to hold on to that feeling
again and again this how my mom
brought me to that state when she sang
that song
there is no denying that music
has a strong influence to our
soul mind and body
right for many including myself
the after effect of music
brings you to the opposite end of the
spectrum
for example after your class in the
afternoon
you put your earphones on right
as you leave while waiting to
a jeep or a bus to arrive you’ve already
listened to a couple of songs
and then you decide to
shuffle the playlist and then boom
never mind of a song like you
someone like he plays adele
right or any specific song that could
really cut your hearts out
right we’ll listen to music
um we listen to music to satisfy
our soul at the moment
we’ve most felt it
right be it for the reason of heartaches
or be it
for the reason of happiness
right it’s amazing how music works
it brings you the surface
emotions that weren’t there to begin
with
right it’s also mind-blowing
how music can be a song of
heartaches the one and
a warm embrace to another
right one more
one more remarkable aspect about music
is that
it can be timeless to any individual
before i began um writing songs
or before i began singing i was
listening
to music existed before or
existed from previous generation
to where i was born in
music doesn’t fade out
it evolves and stays to this day
right just
as picture hold on to a
memory of a moment
hold on to emotion of a moment
right this statement
i will use only because of how true it
is
if you’re looking for forever music
was one of them
i was probably 12 years old when i
started to write songs
does anyone here know
carol banawa
santagita
in my earliest memory these are the
artists i listened to
although growing up
i distinctly remember hearing
the carpenters and i could say to this
day that they are one of my biggest
influence
if not the biggest but then
i was still young and unaware of my own
sound
i wanted to make songs like theirs
and sing exactly like karen carpenters
right that was
that’s simple for me
um the point here is how much
impact music can be on a person
how it became a
medium for calming the senses
how it awakens emotions
and talent that were once
dormant right
music obviously was the avenue
to bring my dreams to life
what follows is the the after effect at
least for me
right as i mentioned earlier
um the world of music opened up to me
when i first heard my mom sing
but it’s been with me from the time
immemorial of my
existence it’s like
in my mother’s womb deep
in slumber with no care
or knowledge of what the world
offered outside came the knocking
of her voice as as she
sing or as she sang of
event events
experiences and
senses i had yet to discover
i didn’t know where nor how
but then i’m sure my being
felt the love reaching out its
hand for me told
simply by hearing the touch
of the foreign sound soon to be revealed
once i have been received by this world
as a baby is first
introduced to sound we cause and cries
and eventually learn to speak
just how music or evolution of sound
of music to me
through time music evolved
from noises translated itself
to me in melodies and words
um ultimately introducing itself to me
as emotion
and self-experiences
this was my uh this was my real
god our real um god story in music
these was the seed planted
in my being
i solely followed
the compass placed inside
that led that led me to this art form
you think that after that encounter with
music
it could just come naturally right
music surprising surprisingly
brings me to a desolate place
right a desolate place
but it was exactly what i needed
to grow as an artist
in the midst of desert i was planted
with no root or with no water
nothing oddly enough
that’s where the flow of the artistic
thought
came to be
this to learn how to strive
in the most unexpected places
this gave me strength to persevere
and continue in this call
to begin solely in
my crash as i continue
on the creative process of my songs
i’ve come to the understanding that
by simply observing
by simply observing for
my surrounding was all i needed
to translate my message through music
you don’t need a terrible situation for
you to write
the greatest romantic tragedy in history
so you can connect to the audience or
you can connect your listener
so yeah sometimes
we need drama in life sometimes
we create an alternate reality in our
heads
to imagine feel and experience
certain scenario
to match the emotion in a song or in
your art
one more remind one more reminder
or uh you should remember this
something that comes from you
is already in itself a masterpiece
out of the overflowing of the heart
comes forth you
so what is the after effect of music
to me or to me
what just came out of my my mouth
earlier
is what music has done to my life
i was given this um opportunity because
of music
this was one of its after effect
may you you you
found your after effect and music too
but it doesn’t just end there even
beyond music if you’re called
to something aside from this art form
may you found or may you find
you’re after after effect in that area
too
last thing last thing
you need to be open to the world
and notice the small details in life
because
that’s where i found
mine thank you