What Is Music?

[@austinevans]

Shoutout to your arm for holding the lantern that entire time. 👀

[@Vsauce2]

Austin Evans I'm all about those lantern gains.

[@thealiens386]

I just came from Austin's channel lol

[@MorgnStar]

Austin Evans Hi Austin!

[@emmanuelreynoso5770]

Hey guys!

[@corngrohlio]

Just trying to balance the left arm with the regular right arm work out? ;)

[@devoncolby5124]

I could literally watch three hours of this man talking about soap.

[@thethreefriends3002]

Same

[@hamidmalmo7664]

Guy Colby Same.

[@Gam3B0y23r0]

If he ever does' I'm sure it'll be way more interesting and informative than 99,9% youtube and all the media is

[@bliffity2692]

Vsauce will probably have more than three hour's worth to say about soap.

[@bythefireside9447]

But what is soap...

[@warl54961]

I cannot imagine how immensely alone and confused that man felt.

[@rafaelcordero6652]

Cobalt Exactly

[@funky7chunky]

Neither can he...

[@rafaelcordero6652]

Romeo Ferrari Damn....that's deep

[@funky7chunky]

Hahaha I'm sorry, just trying to make light of the situation. It's absolutely tragic in reality and I really feel for the guy. Such a cruel world

[@iBaraban]

+Romeo Ferrari he did feel lonely and lost. "it's like being dead" he did know who his wife was. he did realize himself. that's why it's so tragic.

[@andrewjohnson4170]

"As long as you have music and the ability to embrace meaning from the sounds around you, you CANNOT be alone. That, is hope." That statement made me weep. Thank you Kevin.

[@alexanderweiser8801]

Andrew Johnson But who or what exactly is with us then ?

[@SakuraAvalon]

Music.

[@432271171]

Well... It reminds me of deaf people.

[@MrBsehratmaannking]

lol when i started reading your comment, he started saying that.. it was like i was reading subtitles XD that timing

[@andrewjohnson3327]

Hi Andrew Johnson. I wept too.

[@nuc2726]

"My voice is touching your eardrums and moving it in and out" I DID NOT CONSENT.

[@N05K177]

"Is a drill...music?" yup definitely a vsauce video

[@DaP84]

Yup.. Avant Garde music. It's a "genre". And "Danger music". Strange things..

[@ions2]

Marc It would be interesting to make a song using tools as instruments. Like a hammer banging as a kick drum, the drill on different speeds to create a melody, a saw cutting through wood to create a bass line etc. I might actually do this one day :)

[@boi9176]

drill music is a genre look it up

[@N05K177]

Ions Two: So, Andrew Huang ?

[@Gguy061]

John Cage smiles from beyond the grave

[@tjg555]

Kevin's videos keep getting better and better.

[@clairegreen6998]

tj gi so true

[@dnguyen253]

They remind me of the really old Vsauce videos.

[@toxicrain23]

I find myself crying at some of these videos, the mars one made me cry in a public library anyone else get this.

[@CalvinHikes]

dnguyen253 exactly my thoughts. this Vsauce is the new old Vsauce.

[@reazuddinkazi6716]

Yeah I'm gonna click on the small bell one of these days

[@Vsauce2]

Disease was the most basic ground Of my creative urge and stress; Creating I could convalesce, Creating, I again grew sound. -Schöpfungslieder (Creation Songs), Heinrich Heine

[@pyooming3098]

love your content! keep it up!

[@Sazoji]

womb thing was weird

[@midnightmushrooms1141]

((btw lieder means songs))

[@holdmybeer]

Excellent job Kevin.

[@NovaMenno]

Nice video :)

[@robee1602]

1:11 imagine this being the first thing you see after you are born

[@suwinkhamchaiwong8382]

Robe E lol

[@sciblastofficial9833]

Hey Vsauce, Kevin here...

[@straitjacket000]

You've just be born

[@imumsi]

How do we know we didn't?

[@stephenkite399]

😂😂😂😂

[@talkingplant6581]

Vsauce 1- Mind=Blown Vsauce 3- Thats... Cool, I guess Vsauce 2- on the verge of tears. “Beautiful.”

[@outbreakperfected9374]

The father, the son, and the holy spirit

[@deepjeste3499]

@@outbreakperfected9374 😂😂😂👍

[@ZachariahMBaird]

Seriously.

[@ninjabiatch101]

Up yours, 3 is awesome. XD

[@starrykailani]

I love all vsauces

[@desimon2]

This broke my heart a bit. The thought of losing music terrifies me.

[@desimon2]

The Doctor Plays Video Games -phile means love of that's not bad. It's just the negative connotations around a couple of words that end that way.

[@ASOUE]

"Li- li- liiiiife, without mu- mu- musiiiiiiic, is like li- li- liiiiiife without looooooooove"

[@micanikko]

Music keeps me afloat especially when Im exhausted. And for that same reason it terrifies me to lose hearing.

[@Gawillamon]

This why I have always said that I would rather be blind than deaf if I had to pick one. Would you pick deafness over being blind if you had you pick one?

[@Gawillamon]

*Jean Edwards* Music is too amazing and important.

[@SirMoohsAlot]

I can't believe how much work went into getting all these old films and putting them together just for the sake of this video. Great work from the production team there!

[@Vsauce2]

I find all the footage and edit the video. It's one of my favorite parts of the creation process. I'm really glad you enjoyed it too!

[@Gallzatron]

Vsauce2 that just speaks volumes not only to the genuine passion you have, but to the amount of effort that goes into every video. Great job, I especially enjoyed this one!

[@sheeesh404]

wow uhh brag much?? lol jk ily

[@nuzzinick]

Cow17 copy paste your realy impressed by that. if it was your job it can be done in a day

[@Skatenlove24]

Cow17 I know right, this video blew my mind

[@macisr]

The story of Clive Wearing and the Painting about hope are harrowingly sad.

[@marinanicole5693]

Nice profile pic

[@TamperedSource]

*plays black metal at your grocery store* "you know what jane, we need some candles and a pig head."

[@Infernape7890]

Are the pig heads for scaring off the posers?

[@self-crownedroyalty6712]

Aww yes. Or even better dark chocolate and beef jerky.

[@bladein]

This video had me in tearing up, especially after hearing how Clive felt upon seeing his wife and the subsequent feelings after she leaves. It's such a deeply awesome video. That had me thinking about how lost I would be without music. Then between Jake's video with Neil deGrasse Tyson and this video. I started thinking about moments in my life with listening to certain artist or bands, how things would've changed to now. I had tears rolling down my face by the time Kevin mentioned the painting of "Hope" cause it's so eerily perfect and tragic. And with my life, hope has often been the only thing to cling to. LOVE. THIS. VIDEO!

[@jtveg]

That poor guy Clive Wearing. What a terrible affliction to have.

[@adeshpoz1167]

John Thimakis Yeah. Really. 😟

[@Gimodon]

Yes just listening to the story makes me want to cry.

[@AriyaHomes]

😢

[@billschlafly4107]

Clive's story is one of the saddest story I've ever heard. Alzheimer's takes people down in a similar fashion but the person with Alzheimer's is largely unaware. Clive is very aware.

[@UltraBebo]

The painting that you showed at the end that represents hope gave me goosebumps and I got teary-eyed, I have no idea why. I've never felt anything looking at "art".

[@XxBeastWTFxX]

Bebo18 thats probably because people dont really explain a painting to you when you see it, they just leave it for interpretation. and also because of the emotional background music

[@XxBeastWTFxX]

Bebo18 I didn't get goosebumps or get teary-eyed but I know exactly what you mean, I feel it more in music than aesthetics because I'm a musician, but I have felt moments like that with visual art :)

[@jeromerox9999]

Probably had something to do with the music that was in the background

[@UltraBebo]

jeromerox9999 probably a mix of the music and him explaining the painting.

[@harlemsar]

Exactly the same feeling, had to run down the comments to find a similar response.

[@jameszhang7780]

You Know the drill It made music…

[@johnaagcaoiliquilala363]

MUSIC IS BASICALLY...OR SIMPLY...A SOUND...

[@honeycomblord9384]

YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! That's the scrum from "Won't Get Fooled Again", by the way.

[@themolecularman00]

It was industrial house

[@Tandreada]

Why did the picture of hope make me tear up? Anyway, amazing video as always!

[@petratrees6050]

Tandreada same

[@7_ajinkya]

Exactly! Even i felt tears in my eyes with that background music of hope running behind what Kevin was saying... Simply amazing experience! 😃😃

[@LesyasHowTos]

Same

[@acethegreat3963]

I usually don't get touched by paintings in any significant way but that was the first time a painting moved me!

[@zum4342]

If i decide to procrastinate later, would i be procrastinating?

[@goodgrief4543]

Zuni NAIN Woah!

[@joshuanorman2]

NNNNGH

[@talv]

yes.

[@lukeyager5039]

Zuni NAIN Procrastacrastanating

[@whitherwhence]

Meta procrastinating

[@TheMaziqueen]

The effect of stores playing music is interesting because here they play music that makes you want to rip your ears off and not stay for more then the few minutes if possible creating the opposite effect it was supposed to.

[@Bkn_zv]

every time i watch vsauce videos i feel like i learnt something from field of science, witnessed an art, listened to a musical composition and most importantly felt something emotionally all at the same time... weird, confusing, exciting, scared.... to say my brain exploded is to say nothing

[@rafaelcordero6652]

Bekjan Z Dude I literally teared up. Humanity is very confusing but it's so Beautiful. This is modern day Philosophy

[@Bkn_zv]

Rafael Cordero ikr, and every video they upload on V, V2, V3 every time I watch a new video, every time I feel like something shifted in my mind, like something realigned in my head, it's kinda spooky

[@Watch-0w1]

Rafael Cordero yeah vsauce video trually postrait the beauty of humanity

[@demaloe]

I totally agree. I cannot describe in words how much i appreciate their videos. They are truly inspiring.

[@sonicahedgehog9814]

Lol yeah

[@LPArabia]

My arm hurts looking at him holding that light

[@CuaiiMusic]

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life: music and cats." -Albert Schweitzer

[@AS-sd6yb]

What a beautiful video with such a beautiful message. I really don't care how long I have to wait for these videos if this is the quality they have reached.

[@gamesketch]

stopping 20 seconds in, someone needs to remix that drill in the beginning into an official vsauce 2 theme

[@currykingwurst6393]

gamesketch Andrew Huang could do this.

[@zanthor5422]

It would be pretty simple to do, although a bit difficult because it doesn't have a low tone to it like the AC did. I mean, yeah, you could pitch-shift isolated notes down, but still.

[@tennicktenstyl]

Zanthor slow it down, put it under load, record only the whine of switching circuit and sample it, drill something, break it, possibilities are endless

[@lorenzoeldude]

Couldn't you just microsample a single wavelength of a part that comes close to being a sine wave? Because if you have a sine wave you can create square waves with distortion and the possibilities are endless again.

[@VivianDelphine]

gamesketch it reminds me of one of their outros already, though faintly.

[@aquadraco20]

Man, I wasn't expecting to cry from this video...

[@hlichr7957]

This video is so well made, I'm majoring in music and I've read much about each subject that you mention and somehow you are still able to transfer how beautiful and meaningful music really is. Time after time I return to watching this :)

[@41-Haiku]

Rarely am I moved by visual art, but because of this video I bought a print of that painting. Just looking at it overwhelms me.

[@tree7429]

wow as a musician myself this video is extremely powerful. It's stuff like this that push young musicians like myself into the future.

[@christina6782]

Tree didn't know trees could be musicians

[@aledarx2329]

This had me tearing up by the end. This video is informative ART!

[@Aman-ix5tg]

This video is truly inspiring. Tears literally flowed of my eyes at the final part.

[@JPSMS100]

One of the best videos i've watched this year, goosebumps throughout the whole thing. Nice work Vsauce2

[@moonlight.z6543]

That ending with the painting of hope nailed it all. Thank you. You really do know how to create an ending.

[@Chocolateness2000]

This is next level for Vsauce 2 and Kevin. Well done ;D

[@Levy_Wilson]

Did anyone else read the title as Masculinity? Saw the power drill and it almost confirmed it for me until the womb bit.

[@rafaelcordero6652]

Levy Wilson I think he actually did put it "masculinity" by accident

[@Levy_Wilson]

Rafael Cordero Doesn't look like it. I just looked at Vsauce2 on Twitter, posted an hour ago it's there written as Musicality.

[@hamidmalmo7664]

Levy Wilson Maculinity is a nice topic by the way.

[@rafaelcordero6652]

***** Oh. Sorry. Must be my mind playing with the words

[@Levy_Wilson]

Cat Impaler Yeah. I was figuring what direction he could take it. Saw the like bar and thought "well looks like it's not going the SJW, men are all evil route, so let's watch." Pleasantly surprised by another topic instead.

[@goodgrief4543]

"Is mayonnaise an instrument?" - Patrick Star ⭐️

[@goodgrief4543]

Subscribe please.........I'll leave now.......

[@lil_vault_boy]

Heyy. Grace Stop this madness

[@Jake-pr7js]

Heyy. Grace i read that as patrick stump

[@grampton]

thnks fr th mmrs

[@BiggDoggJake]

Horseradish isn't an instrument, either.

[@amanbk6639]

I don't know why but I cried at the end. I felt like that's how I feel the music. Music is the energy of emotions, music is the wave of life and even Stephen hawking says that's 'this entire existence is sound.'

[@mybluemars]

Kevin you are amazing! Outstanding job! The story of Clive Wearing is sad and inspiring at the same time.

[@SignificantPressure100]

and as always..........thanks for watching

[@SuperHappyBros]

lonieton league of legends game theroy

[@ThePsychoCake]

The Game Roy

[@gamophyte]

and as always thanks for crying.

[@travisallen9689]

lonieton league of legends I read this at the same time he said it

[@lamborbiker7442]

Goddamn kevin, watching your videos is like traveling through dimensions, the atmosphere they create is simply phenomenal.

[@POTATOEMPN]

I came here to get knowledge. I left with feels.

[@3OrMoreBones]

Is mayonnaise an instrument?

[@Tyron95]

No Dan, mayonnaise is not an instrument...

[@ZedJay23]

Dan The Trombone Man You can make music with it, people make music with many things not traditionally considered instruments. Look at the didgeridoo, it is believed that the first didgeridoos were discovered when someone blew into a eucalyptus tree branch that had been hollowed out by termites. Why would you blow into a termite infested branch? It makes a weird sound! So why not use mayonnaise as an instrument, it’s not a traditional instrument but that shouldn’t matter.

[@ZachariahMBaird]

Yes. Look it up on KZbin.

[@elementj4830]

No Patrick

[@Hhhhhhhhhhhhh292]

No Patrick. Mayonnaise is not an instrument

[@user-nx9mx1oh2l]

As a musician, I must say this video depicts an incredibly accurate definition of what music truly is: hope, a companion. Wonderful video, glad to see music is still considered a fundamental part of life.

[@HoneyBoom]

i've been a musician for over 20 years and somehow i didn't know some of this. A+ video.

[@Fools_Travels]

you know... through all the shit I've been through, this video could never have reached me at a better time... thank you

[@jadelouisetidman7400]

I don't know what happened, but that video just outshone everything I've seen recently! What perfect thoughts to convey.

[@anonymouscrab2013]

9:44 And your voice is like butter being melted inside my ears.

[@lucasgrisanti5424]

Your statement about hope at the end was beautiful.

[@nicolehughes7863]

it was super interesting and amazing, but I'm both surprised and not surprised. With each video I know I'm going to feel good and learn a lot, yet still feel surprised and happy when I learn more. This one was very interesting, honestly!

[@OfficialArctic]

Thanks for your shoutouts all those years ago Kevin, great topic and awesome video as always.

[@Lucy-xw9jw]

"is drill an instrument?" Davie504: "hold my beer"

[@kuldeeppatel347]

This needs to happen

[@MewtwoExMasterMusic]

“As long as you have music, and the ability to embrace meaning from the sounds around you, you cannot be alone. That is… hope… “ I always cry to this…

[@joelwilletts5205]

I doubt you'll see this but I thought this was absolutely brilliant, one of the greatest thing I've ever seen on yt well done man

[@william_2610]

and as always.................. Thanks for making these videos.

[@martinvelev1980]

amazing video Kevin

[@samuelbrasington2958]

yo Clive's story and the ending straight up almost made me cry wtf vsauce why you gotta do that to me fam

[@Omfgwhtavid]

Oh man this left me in tears, I'm getting soft in my old age. My Grandfather always said "You're never alone with music", if I can hope to be half as wise as he was then I know I'm doing something right.

[@poopsmith21]

I was emotionally moved by this video. My heart is so heavy for those that are deaf, particularly over the fact that some may never get to hear the beauty that is music. In music, we are engaging the hemisphere of logic and the hemisphere for compassion... all at the same time. It is now ever more clear that we need music. All of us.

[@EliWhitney756]

Keep doing what you do in making these great videos. This one brought out a lot of unexpected emotions.

[@LtZesty]

Best of the VSauces by far! You’re so entertaining. If only my school teachers could teach like this.

[@Kamendachi]

0:33 And now Kevin is now yelling at a pregnant woman's belly.

[@joanardon6222]

5:38 for those wondering about that song, it is called "Shona" by "Jake Chudnow"

[@pesi89]

Awesome video, awesome outro! Kevin you're getting better and better every video. Keep up the good work! -Pete

[@elviejomundo2446]

I came here to enrich my sense of music in a neuro-biological way. In the end, I felt emotionally touched.

[@KnowArt]

Why do we feel emotions when we hear music?

[@rafaelcordero6652]

Aldo In the beginning of the video. He states that we process sounds as music in the first stages of our life. My guess is music is the Language that is tied to the psyche of life. So when we hear it, it literally speaks to us directly; not even figuratively

[@KnowArt]

Hmm, that music tells a story with emotions... But... how does it do it? Why don't we feel such emotions when we hear a cordless drill? which is also sound.

[@rafaelcordero6652]

Aldo Great Nuanced question Brother, I really don't know. It's so baffling

[@carpo719]

It's often our association with the tones or music. Songs that bring us to nostalgia.

[@carpo719]

I can hear certain types of music that move me and others that don't at all. I think it's truly has to do with the Nostalgia of our past and how we connect it. Especially if we hear a song that we may have heard while we were growing up perhaps our parents played it on the radio. But I have studied this for a while in my own life and found that in certain states of mind a person can listen to a song and build a strong connection to it only hearing it once. It often has to do with Neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin, as well as oxytocin such as in mothers and children. Fathers of course. Our minds build emotional connections to the sounds we hear because that is how we connect to the world around us not to mention protecting ourselves from danger.

[@jennybeck5340]

None of your key change examples changed the key - just the octave. Great video though! I love your channel.

[@hello201014]

I love your quirkiness and awkwardness! You convey knowledge without taking yourself too seriously. I feel that is what makes your videos so enjoyable.

[@Jivetalkin13]

Every time I hear Kevin talk about hope at the end I end up crying because of how moving it is.

[@Memorie]

Hey, Jscauce, Jack here.

[@militantpacifist4087]

11:58 That should be called "the Patrick Star syndrome."

[@gertiii5375]

"Without music, life would be a mistake." Friedrich Nietzsche

[@ulfricstormcloak9733]

I cried at the end. Great video.

[@alwaysamy4]

Wow 😳 this is the best thing I've seen on KZbin in awhile! I knew music was everything!

[@kaminathegreat7539]

Dangit, Kevin! I didn't ask for these feels!

[@beatlebabe1969]

Ive been waiting so long for a vsauce video on music!

[@KitttyCat]

This video was beautiful. Thank you for sharing! 🎼🎧

[@MaximumBan]

Kevin. You blew my mind with this one. Such a sad story. I weeped like a child how lost his mom in a crowd.

[@chaosbank]

As I watched this video I held my phone up at a bright light and the lamp Kevin was holding seemed like it was blinding me. Although I was quite smacked, it felt amazing.

[@heartseed04]

Vsauce2, consistently giving existential crises and an inexplicable pain in my throat.

[@Gguy061]

We need more dialog between STEM and the humanities. They're often unfairly pitted against each other. We're not enemies; we depend on each other. The artist for the means of his practice and the scientist for meaning itself

[@BxPanda7]

ok im downloading this video and im going to try to turn this drill sound into music, you just watch me

[@h7pubg]

BxPanda7 where is it

[@kuldeeppatel347]

Are you done yet?

[@DylansLapplandSimping]

We are waiting for your masterpiece, Mozart

[@chloec8219]

this is so powerful.. literally gave me chills just listening to this its so amazing how music can affect us. music is truly the biggest part of me and I want to cry just thinking about this like becoming a musician 12 years ago was the best desicion I have EVER made.

[@saraoshin1162]

You see I love music so very much and near the end when you started to talk about how music helped him and that as long as we can hear music we're not alone, I started crying. I dont even know why but thank you.

[@mfwhom5214]

I love listening to uterine blood and fluid flowing around me on Spotify. Artists don't make music like that anymore.

[@lkwdknucklehead4401]

"MAMA" Why did I laugh so hard at that? lol

[@ellicerslavic]

4:47 Anyone else find 'DA-DA' - Donkey from Shrek the Third sprung into mind? xD

[@coopgaming1514]

Ellice Ramsay-Slavic I thought of the dronkeys

[@ectoOLDACC]

Thank you(!) I only realised that now

[@michaelolson]

This is probably your most heartfelt video... and thank you making it. Music = My life.

[@emilianocaballeroh]

I just finished reading The birth of tragedy, by Nietzsche. I'm still in the mental trip of the book thinking it over and reflecting, this videos is such a complementary aid to Nietzsche's book. He never spoke about that womb origin of sound.... It's all connected, every sense of the body has a synesthetic relationship with each other and they are all the same language, expression from the universe speaking, we give it meaning based on our emotions ticking through time, existing and dying in Dionysus dithyramb and only holding it together by the Apollonius physical matter sculpting in space, all form of expression or 'will' is the same universal language. Total duality of existence itself. Thanks for your video.

[@2003mi]

This made me cry i dont know way

[@rafaelcordero6652]

2003mi I am in the same position you are in right now

[@2003mi]

Rafael Cordero :)

[@wingnight7646]

7 am getting ready for work, threw on a vsauce video, who knew id be cryin by the end haha

[@Anna-ly2fn]

I am wondering where Clive Wearing knows his wife from when he can't remember anything? Or maybe I'm just confused...

[@ProxyMatron]

I think the memory of relationships is stored differently to the memory of events. Idk

[@Anna-ly2fn]

That sounds quite logical, thanks:)

[@russellandjessicadavis3950]

i am married five years now and me and my wife has become one being in many ways.. maybe he lost him-self but retained ( their )combined self through association of the sight of his wife, his love, his other half, and, himself. the same way his memory of music is triggered by muscle memory. the man retained only what he felt to be most important to him in his life.

[@iBaraban]

that's a good question to ask. also he remembers how to read sheet music and where the notes are on the keyboard which is difficult on it's own, even for a healthy person.

[@Akredlm]

Stepan Balalaikin Muscle Memory

[@KyaRider]

I read the title as "The human bridge of masculinity". Now I'm disapointed

[@aikslf]

did you just assume all of humanity's gender?

[@asarogers5786]

i thought that too lol

[@evanoc]

Get out fashie.

[@futurestoryteller]

That's pathetic.

[@rateater420]

Wyatt J. Pinkelman same man, thanks.

[@drainedeyes4268]

"Timber" Fantastic video, though, I actually got a lot from this.

[@MichaelJONeill333]

This makes me so grateful so be a composer. Music connects us all.

[@cburgess7]

This explanation of music is more beautiful than music

[@akanarashi]

So you've remastered that Jacksfilms vsauce parody

[@goodnightosaka]

"This is a question?" - Kevin

[@SaidBKD95]

This is a statement

[@BULLTRONHERO]

Wow, this was fascinating. Up until the end, when it became more emotional. Thanks Kevin, I needed that right now. Thought I had become more alone than ever until I heard you say that.

[@lilpainter11]

Clive's story has always fascinated me. Glad to see you talk about it in your video!