Updates on our group project:

Intro:

~Music, often described as organized sound, plays an incredibly important role in our lives. It allows us to feel emotion and express ourselves. 

As we experience the reality of quarantine day by day, our collective thoughts and ideas are shifting and changing. There seems to exist a dichotomy between dealing with spatial limitations by the confinements of our homes and the infinite opportunities of communication through our devices. Although most of our experiences have been converted to a remote setting, we need to be able to maintain connections with people.

     When watching Spaceship Earth, a perpetual thought kept circulating in my mind: we are living in Biosphere 2. With the advent of COVID-19, many individuals around the globe have been asked to seek shelter in their homes, quarantining and sustaining their lives within their own domestic spheres.

 Music, often described as organized sound, plays an incredibly important role in our lives. It allows us to feel emotion and express ourselves as well. Music allows individuals to come together who listen or play the same music and create a collective. It helps shape musical communities and ideologies.

    It is very interesting yet contradictory that the animal most praised during this year of the Chinese Zodiac, the rat, has been used constantly to advance biological research throughout history. In fact, it has probably made a contribution to research in almost every scientific area, from drug addition to virology (Hox Zodiac).

    With the quick disappearance of bread from supermarket shelves, people across the world have started to create their own creations they call bread. With very simple yet sometimes difficult to find ingredients nowadays, this food staple can be created.

The start of each mundane morning is signified by the chirping birds outside my bedroom window. Although the nagging sound of alarms is what leads me to jump out of my subconscious thoughts, it is the sound of nature that follows that keeps me sane.