Essay About the Relationship Between Music and Nature 03: De Natura Sonoris

Music & Nature 03 (in German only)
De Natura Auris

The sparrows whistle it from the rooftops - but there are, to be precise, less and less sparrows. We hear their song, we understand exactly what they have to tell us - and we know exactly what we would have to do. But what happens inside us is called cognitive dissonance - and it has nothing to do with the sparrows possibly singing in the wrong key. Cognitive dissonance means that we refuse to perceive something that's happening right in front of our eyes, it's there every day, and it's within our grasp. We see it, but we just don't want to look. We are talking about nature, about the tremendous changes that are currently taking place before our eyes. But in this music lesson we are not talking about nature on the whole, but about the nature that is in every sound, if it is allowed to unfold. De natura sonoris. If we do not pay attention to the smallest things, how are we to succeed in dealing with the great and the whole?

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Five ways to describe nature

5 Music Lessons by Uli Aumüller

The sparrows are whistling it from the rooftops - but to be precise, there are fewer and fewer sparrows. We hear their song, we understand exactly what they have to tell us - and we know exactly what we would have to do. But what happens inside us is called cognitive dissonance - and it has nothing to do with the sparrows possibly singing in the wrong key. Cognitive dissonance means that we refuse to perceive something that's happening right in front of our eyes, it's there every day, and it's within our grasp. We see it, but we just don't want to look. We are talking about nature, with which we do not live in harmony.
But what exactly does music have to do with nature? What connections of music to nature are possible? This week's SWR2 Music Lessons explore five different aspects. Natura Naturata: the imitation of created nature, its sonic surface - Natura Naturans: the imitation of the inner formative processes of nature, its often mathematical principles of action - De Natura Sonoris: the investigation of the properties of individual sounds and what aesthetic laws can be derived from them - De Natura Auris: This is about the question of our perception, what we hear, what we filter out, how we process what we hear - and finally Adoratio Naturae, the worship of nature, music, for example, that invokes rain, fertility, the majesty of the cosmos - or simply promises to sound in "harmony with nature."