Music 101

Music 101 in its third season, featuring The Sacred Sound: Music's Journey from Christian .


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From the hallowed halls of Gregorian chant, where melody was a divine prayer intended to elevate the soul toward the heavens, to the silent, humming servers of the digital age, where music is generated by amoral algorithms parsing data sets, the journey of sound is a profound mirror of our shifting worldview. Music once began as a sacred offering—a human attempt to translate faith, emotion, and transcendence into vibration, rooted in the belief that harmony reflected the order of a creator. Today, that deeply spiritual endeavor meets its disquieting counterpart: artificial intelligence that composes without conscience, curates without craving, and creates without a soul. This is not merely a change in how music is made; it is a philosophical upheaval. We are witnessing the transition of art from a testament of human experience—fraught with morality, pain, joy, and search for meaning—into a product of pure function, where the sacred is stripped away, and what remains is efficiency without essence, a soundtrack without a story. The question is no longer just what music we will listen to, but whether a song born of code can ever truly echo the human spirit

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Music 101By Daniel Lucas / G.Mick Smith