Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Looking Up Some Other Sacred Music

Although I wasn't in class to listen to the previously discussed songs, I looked up some extra sacred music on youtube. Listening to hundreds of christian songs sounded boring and kind of uninteresting, since I feel like a lot of times they're pretty distinguishable (I saw from past posts that people were most able to identify the christian songs.) So, I decided to try something a little different. There was kind of a cool link to tibetan monks and I thought I'd check it out. I was really expecting something kind of peaceful and relaxing: meditation is something that I automatically associate with buddhism, but this particular song kind of gave me the creeps. As one of the "youtubers" commented, it really sounds like it could fit perfectly into the soundtrack of a horror movie. I don't know if that's exactly what I'd want to listen to as I thought about prayer or God(s). In general, it weirds me out to hear people who can harmonize with themselves- it's some kind of weird vocal chords thing- but the tone and the melody of the music is specifically eerie. If anyone is interested, there seem to be a ton of other monk chants on youtube, but I'm warning you !

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