Turning Sound Into Music-Why Do We Do It? | Short Film Showcase

Filmmaker Mac Premo filmed a conversation with radio host, composer, and producer Jad Abumrad about sounds, music, and Abumrad's thoughts about why we turn sound into music.
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[@DragOzze]

Function of music is expression. Expression of emotions, thoughts, feelings, creativity its expression of who we are and why we are.

[@Extiriority]

These edits are too much

[@Thecoolguy12391]

ye

[@ixthebest8325]

WOW amazing video, best edit ever.

[@laurakampf]

BEST FILM I HAVE SEEN ALL YEAR!

[@samuelerosetti491]

This is a good way of spreading knowledge about the art of sounds. Thank you very much.

[@jammonaghan]

this video is awesome!! great editing and effects 👌 seriously cool

[@sp.617]

Nicely done. Quality sounds.

[@bhargavatejasallapalli2861]

This is the best video I have ever seen

[@neuralvibes]

His comparison of music to touch is a pretty good one. A good piece of music is like a good massage, the difference being that it's your brain (or your brain's neurons) that's getting the treatment.

[@dontbetowel]

wow this is amazing

[@josiefirst7027]

Amazing !!

[@BearXOwl]

Holy s**t..the greatest video among what I've watched in recent few months. Thanks for inspirations Nat Geo. I grew up watching your videos for the last 30years but this is something else.

[@pocketvelero]

This video was great. Fantastic even. I love the way it pokes the pencil at the question in an intentionally abstract way, and it's a very life-defining one. What is the function of music? If music is the echo of the strings that develop emotion and those strings are tied to the very world that we trek daily then clearly the function of music is indefinite - as much so as the function of life.

[@Anonymoose]

I have said, and seen proven many times in my life, that music is the universal language. The perfect quote from this video: "Music doesn't *mean* anything, it just *IS* the thing."

[@noaccount4]

Good god this editing is too fast paced

[@shitbucks6522]

Wow!!! The edits are amazing!!! Best edited video I have ever seen in my life! Good job! Bravo!!!

[@SeazBreeze]

1:18 cable changes side

[@Luchoedge]

Amazing audiovisual production!

[@FreazyTek]

Music is life

[@lewarkot2744]

one of the best edited videos ever!

[@MikhaelAhava]

We do it cause we do it.

[@MikhaelAhava]

Isn't those tapes now obsolete? I haven't seen them for a while.

[@dismaldice3045]

10 out of 10 movie, would watch it again.

[@meyercamden]

Amazing. Music is all of us. It has no real function. Until we give it one.

[@nundale7273]

Boards of Canada: Music is Math.Good concept, well executed, very polarizing. Many people will hate, many will love. Choose your side but stop hating. The world has enough of it already.

[@gadog420]

Music makes people.

[@LeRoux027]

mind blown

[@daniquinteero6800]

this is actually a good video

[@pastelab]

💜💜💜 The editing

[@maxjohn166]

music feeds your soul

[@alvarooliva7109]

In order to make content like this, what sort of things should i begin learning?

[@ev3977]

Surely music is another form of communication in a sense...

[@TheOOMBAA]

I Love this

[@BajajRebecca]

sick video

[@dulynoted2427]

To communicate.

[@Willyliemfams]

i like the edit

[@yangb0]

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[@walkwithme]

I don't agree with Jad about music "just being there". Music has been a form of communication, always has been and always will be. I would say people we define as the greatest musicians prior to the 2000s would use music to communicate and emotion that sometimes words couldn't express as accurately.

[@unknownperson5097]

Hi

[@MariuszNajwerOfficial]

Only 15k views?? Is this a joke?? i'm sharing this!

[@douglasescalante7808]

woooooooooooo

[@Mike-oi2th]

It's a great video until the background noises so loud and random that hard to listen what he says.

[@UksiHattu12]

Okay editing but it is not needed to edit every second

[@sdgagnon2297]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@TheOzzization]

He lost all credibility when he said "words are just codes" and that "there's nothing innate about it".. only the edit made me watch till the end

[@TheOzzization]

Mac Premo... of course.

[@direcrux4065]

So what about those statements makes them discreditable? Rather than just state it expand on why.

[@sickgringo007]

This guy is really into himself and his pseudo deep ramblings. The editing must have taken a lot of time and effort and I'm not sure this interview was worthy of it.

[@testsxxrxxmp]

yeah i agree with u

[@Ntmoffi]

Waaayyy over edited.

[@mrboobiesrider9212]

the edit is overedited!

[@chriscarlisle8997]

this is amazing. new insight on sound and music

[@3cetvrtine]

The edits of the video are really cool, but a bit over the top in my opinion. It is a nice change from the usual videos though.

[@kirbyabarquez4515]

what is the function of music?.. it made us to express our thoughts, feelings and emotions?.. that if when you are a musician or an artist.

[@marktwained]

Ok

[@gihnraishin4019]

what's that music which starts at 1:11 ?

[@Willyliemfams]

+soundduck

[@mbins123]

very good point about music here but with a black image instead of all this convulsing video editing would have been better

[@BigDeeDee90]

The Government Totally Sucks -Tenacious D I heard that song; you can't mistake Jack Blacks voice haha

[@carlaugust]

Really interesting! It's a tricky question to answer!

[@NumeroSystem]

Music is the combination of sound and time.

[@gtabigfan34]

OMG This is awesome!!!! MOAAARR!!!

[@DanieleXtraJr]

He seems like he is in an altered state of consciousness. the video placed me into one. Great short.