Music in Nature

Nature is providing music, sounds which open for an observing listener. The nature sound world "producers" are among other things: water, wind, thunder, birds, trees, leaves and insects. In Finnish language we actually have hundreds of words in order to describe these exact and unique natural sounds. In English language the natural sounds vocabulary is somewhat limited.

Firstly, it is remarkable to learn how the nature sound world changes during the different times of the day. The middle of the day, the warmest and sunniest moment, is the most quiet "siesta" moment of the nature. The busiest sound world is experienced in the early morning and late evening.

The sounds of nature are special in many ways. There is no rhythm or regularity, there is nothing we can really expect to happen or know "for sure" - there is no certainty. Just random elements of surprise. The natural sounds are at the same time simple, profound, changing and meaningful. Since nature is consisting of living organisms which are not meant to be copied or reproduced as such, the sound world is also ever changing and mutating, mixture of earlier experiences and current situation. The sound moment that just passed might never return and the recently recorded, unique mixture of various sounds may never be heard again. But in the end, one person doesn't really know if the sound is repeating since our whole world is based on individual experiences and comparing the individual experiences with each other.

Due to the unpredictability, the wild nature as whole can be scary for the modern human being. Modern human being can only experience limited control towards the natural happenings on this globe. Human being does not understand all "the laws of nature" and this is probably meant to be so - at least for the next era of 1000 years.