This is why music is such an incredible art form. It's all sine waves of air at the end of the day, but there are entire universes hidden somewhere there in the

This is why music is such an incredible art form. It's all sine waves of air at the end of the day, but there are entire universes hidden somewhere there in the air. You can be a musician, explore classical western music, jazz, rock, pop etc... and still discover a brand new genre or avant-garde style that sounds nothing like any other music. What is most sad to me is, nowadays music mostly taught as a means of practice. People go through entire schools of music without composing their own pieces. As a total nooby, composing music is one of the most fun I have interacting with music, it allows me to explore what these composers thought about writing their music. Like, pick up a guitar and try to improvise a jazz piece, or pick a classical composer (Bach/Mozart/Glass/etc...) and try to write variations based on their theme or re-harmonize the piece. It shows you what each composer valued the most, and why certain trade-offs made sense. For example, Bach was absolutely obsessed with polyphonal/contrapuntal music, maybe to an insane, unhealthy degree. He was so obsessed with this idea, that he went ahead and wrote entire fugues for solo violin, and entire suites for solo cello that have nothing but arpeggiated chords. Once you realize what was the "musical project" (so to say) of each composer was (not just classical but also any genre of music including mainstream pop), your music enjoyment increases an order of magnitude. Like, when Bach was alive the art form of "fugue" was considered outdated and old, but he loved it so much that he simply dedicated his life to exploring contrapuntal music.