Nick Galardy and the Universal Language of Music

Nick playing in Rusalka, at the battle of the bands.

  Finding the Meaning of Music: Nick Galardy by Nick Ischer

This is Nick Galardy. A guitar player from the Champaign, IL area. He's played a few bands in the local scene and recently enrolled in Southern Illinois University Carbondale as a journalism student. As one of the first people I had gotten to know down in Carbondale, he and I bonded over our musical backgrounds. He was the first person I considered interviewing for this final project.

The theme to this piece is just how music is a universal language. It's something that people can hear and connect to. They can connect to the time it was written, and the composers emotions and thoughts. According to Science Daily, studies have been done that show the universal connection people have to music.

There are even links between psychology and music. Human emotions can be effected by the tones of music. If they perceive a song to be sad, it can drastically change their emotions to match these attitudes. So communicating feelings of depression is possible from artist to listener. Another connection to help emphasis how universal the language of music is. 

Nick was kind enough to grace us with some playing on the guitar as well. He's a little rusty, but he did a great job when put on the spot.

Link Dump:
Science Daily
Link between music and emotions.
Lecture notes on Music Psychology
Rusalka's Myspace
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