week of feb 26th: write about echoes, sound, and reverberation. what is an echo– just sound or something more? how can it reverberate through past, present, and future? can emotion be an echo in that way? what else can be?
there are some stars in the sky that aren't there anymore, but we still see them because the last of their light hasn't reached earth yet.
that's a bit like an echo, isn't it? a fragment from something whose time is over, reaching into the future, taking us to the past. my mom tells me that echoes are a bit like time travel in this way.
we like the sound of reverberation; why else would we add it to all our favorite songs? as nice as a reverb effect is, it can't compare to real reverberation. there's something special about hearing a sound bounce all around you - whether in an empty church or in the hills or within the walls of your own room.
that kind of sound is special. it can be recorded, but you can't record the feeling of the sound, the way it interacts with and bounces against its environment, the way it reverberates against you. that's a feeling to hold dear and cherish.
are stars and sound so different? it seems to me that the sight of a long-gone star's light and the sound of a song reverberating around you are the same kind of wonderful.