The Reason Why Music Evolves

As someone who has been doing music for approximately 82% of their life, it is a natural tendency for me to notice the extraordinary within the mundane. 

Ever since I've discovered my perfect pitch (the ability to recognize the note of any given pitch without any reference) in seventh grade while simply watching some YouTube video, I can hear music or components of what defines music in the most dumbest ways, even to the point of annoyance. 

Whether it is the sound of the school bell, someone smashing head-first into their locker (Still feel bad for whoever this is), or even a person with a coughing fit (This person too), there is music to be found for me that others would hear as a "normal part of their day." 

There must be a reason these videos of musicians making music out of ordinary objects exist right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeQFEXbwTOI  

Source: (Multi-instrumentalist producer Andrew Huang performing popular hit songs with ordinary objects) 

To put into hindsight, some days when I would go outside for a walk, I would hear the birds chirp, the trees rustling, and occasionally, even an angry gruff guy car honking and yelling at another guy cutting them off (I'm not Sean Connery but shorry, that's not my problem). 

These are typically defined by the regular community as ambient noises. Why? 

Well, it's because these sounds are so standard and we hear them so, so, so often that people just casually slap a term for all of them, calling them ambient noises.

These sounds may even gradually become irritating over time for regular people as they continually hear them more and more, making these noises go from ambient to annoying 

For musicians, this isn't the case. When we endure past this annoyance and truly make the effort to look deeper into the surrounding noise, we can hear pieces slowly coming together.

The ambient sounds are no longer just sounds -- they become ambient music. 

https://youtu.be/SlbO1TRfl8I?si=-nivfSgmW-N525IG

(Guustavv - Neopolitin, a prime example of ambient music)

The tree rustling now providing the rhythmic aspects of the music, while the birds chirp a sweet melody, on top of the sound effects of the car honking, and the rap solo of the bickering gruff men.

This answers the question of why music has lasted such a long time. Just like with organisms and scientific theories, they evolve. New genres like ambient music are being discovered as we start to notice and appreciate the small details within the mundane. 

Back in the early 1900's, there was no Electronic Dance Music, no DJs, no Skrillex. 

It was not even the norm back in that age to use produced sounds in songs. Using such sounds is equivalent to just overlapping a recording of your fan running on top of a Beatles song, for example.

It's all thanks to the musicians who took the extra mile to implement the generic non-musical elements into their music that we have the music of this generation that many, (especially I) appreciate so much. 

Maybe someday, the time will arrive that our definition of music will evolve once again.