Musical Isolation: Coming Soon To Fox

No, this is not a real show but just hear me out. Have you ever wondered about what it would be like if a band wasn'’t influenced by any other musicians before it? Basically this is impossible now and days where music is played all over, if anything it is indeed impossible to go about your daily life and not hear music. The only true way a band can not be influenced by other music is by completely isolating themselves from the outside world, which leads me to an experiment that I would love to perform.

I always thought about how great of an idea it would be if you were to take four people basically from birth, stick them in a house where there is no possible way of hearing music. In this house there are a set of instruments, let’s say maybe a guitar, drums, bass, and piano or keyboard. Without giving them any music lessons because that will bound to lead them into some direction when regarding musical style (Maybe just show them how to make chords), lets see what they would create. Would all three of them work cohesively as a group each playing a different instrument? Would they put words to their music? What would be the length of their songs? This has always been a large fascination of mine, with absolutely no influences driving them to a certain genre what kind of music would they create and just how would it sound? The big problem I see besides the moral and ethical issues of performing such a test is that without having any other human contact besides the four of them how emotionally connected would the music be? I'm sure there would be some emotional attachment especially when regarding loneliness but if we go and say that all four of these people are the same gender would there be feelings of love and jealousy? The questions are endless and all of which very appealing but these will have to be left as mysteries.

As I said before this experiment would be seen as betraying a moral code because of the cruelty due to the fact that you are completely isolating someone from the outside world but none the less it would be quite a creative one and very interesting. A matter of fact, I wouldn’t be surprised of some ridiculous TV show was created where they take a child away from birth and just stick them in a house where they are completely separated from the rest of humanity. In the end I wouldn‚’t want to see this ever happen just for the sake of those being tested on but the idea will always plague my mind in interest.