Blog 8: Music from Nature

There are many CDs out there that claim to be sounds directly from nature, meant to be soothing and peaceful, a connection to the world around us. Comparing those, such as the Nightinggale CD in class today, to the work of Lopez shows a fairly large difference. They represent the ideal nature to us humans, while Lopez shows the "real" nature, presenting to the listener everything to be heard in a setting, even including human sounds. The CDs with edited nature sounds can fulfill their purpose, letting the listener idealize nature and have peaceful background music. They aren't necessarily meant to show real nature. Lopez, on the other hand, has a different goal altogether, which, In my opinion, is why they shouldn't compete over their purpose, being entirely different things all together. Lopez isn't trying to make the sounds ideal. He is representing them as recorded, with little to no editing, as close actually being there as possible.