To start off, this semester has been a blast, though blinding quick because it seemed like yesterday we were just starting on this yet nonetheless, every experience is worth it. From discovering different people on their music, to different cultures and using our sense of sight on arts of different kinds. If you’d wonder, why are we doing this? Are we blogging for grade? Well, probably. Are we blogging for fame? Though falling short of blog followers, we try to make our voices heard through words. What really matters is what’s really in us. Something that we can’t just hide thus being put into blog form. Going back to the question, what is MAC in me? What do Music, Arts and Culture have to do with my life? I’ll start off with Culture.
Culture is defined as the manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. Come to think of it, Music and Arts can have a big probability on being part of this. Waking into consciousness into life, we can actually discover that we’re being part of a culture, though we don’t have the knowledge to perceive such thing happening. Picture yourself as a three-year old, you’re being dropped off to a Day Care Center and not too far, you’ll be in a playpen of children your age. From then on, cultures are born. Okay, so maybe not a daycare, but how about the time when your mother lets you lose outside to play with other kids. From then on, starts a culture. As you grow and mature, every culture will take part in your life one way or another, love it or loathe it. One thing for sure, the cultures that took part in me have molded me into what I am and probably who I am not that others try to make me become. Having this free will to choose who you want to be is a great opportunity in life, especially when that culture you join into involves loving your God. It’s probably the culture I’d never depart on.
An art is defined as produced by skill and imagination. This definition particularly should focus on imagination. Yes, skill is obtained by the best ones. The ones that have their paintings hang on museums but you cannot deny the fact that having imagination alone can be considered art. Thus without imagination, you cannot make or do anything. You’ll be stuck staring at your paper or easel board waiting for one hour with flies swarming around you. You have imagination and it can bring you to greater heights of creativity. It may look ugly to other people, but you’ll probably be the only person to appreciate your own make. Art has been a big part of my life. Since I was a toddler, one of the most probably things I’m holding on to be either a ball-point pen or a pencil. My imagination lets me draw and put into paper things I’m thinking of and yes, to this very day I still do it. Not too much lately but I can actually make a cartoon/caricature drawing of you. But other than that, without art, I’d be very boring right now. You’d picture me as a vast desert of full desertion.
Music is defined as the art or science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion. This, of the three, has got to be my favorite. There can never be a day without a melody whether whistling my favorite tune or maybe jamming out with an electric guitar together with a full band. It’s probably the big part of me that can never be removed. This is how I express myself, and since I’ve mentioned earlier how much I love my God, this is the best expression I can make. Ever since I was a kid, I was exposed to the radio and voices of my loved-ones singing so it’s not far off I can recognize sound. Singing was the first thing I’ve ever done in relation. Without my voice, I would’ve never been part of my aunt’s Broadway production, part of a choir or even part of a band. It’s the simplest thing man can do to make music. Turning 9, I turned my eye to Drums which made me practice and learn basic lessons, though it didn’t last in the end and I may have not been the greatest drummers, you give me a stick and a set then it’s settled. The guitar has been the best thing that has happened to me. Its portability and great sound helped me become what I am best today, a guitarist. I have become recognized because of this and I thank it. That’s why I glorify my God with everything I do with this instrument. Whatever I play comes from the heart and that’s what God puts in mine. Music has made me into a person I never thought I was, that is why among the three, it stands out and probably the reason why M goes first in MAC.
Simply put, this maybe the end of the semester but one thing’s for sure, Music, Arts and Culture lives on forever. It’s something to be passed on to generations until the end.
Posted by: Sergio Miguel A. Villena
BCR 3-1
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