Idk if you’ve explored human music vs Cybertronian music, but I’ve had Thoughts abt how they would receive human music and how they widely they must differ. Sure, you’ve got mechs like Jazz who love human music, and then you’ve got Soundwave who used to make his own tunes. Which, obviously, got me thinking.
First of all: the age gap determines the length and intensity of our music. Their music must go on for SO MCFREAKIN LONG. They’re millions of years old, you can’t tell me they wouldn’t sit there taking ages to consider a whole song that lasts hours from start to finish. While our songs are, at best, 15 minutes, in some very rare cases. As such, they have a lot to work with, creating mini masterpieces in one long song. The closest we come to is concerts and orchestral performances, and even then, they’re much too short. That said, our music is jam-PACKED with intense emotional creativity. We don’t have much time to waste drawing out the chorus, and though their computer brains do work faster, our human brains have more to consider and process all at once, concluding entire stories and conversations in one second, while a Cybertronian crunches numbers in an amazing battle scenario. And we make so much more music in one generation than they would in three.
Second: physiology breeds a whole new range of hearing/vocalizations that we could never hope to hear or reproduce. We have a limited hearing range even among other organics on our own planet, while Cybertronians can produce and hear squeaks and rumbles beyond our comprehension. There are likely some ranges of sounds that would be physically and mentally unsafe or mass-insanity inducing for humans to hear that they would consider common-use in their music. And what we can’t produce of our own ability, we created instruments to do for us, and trained ourselves to play them professionally. They have variety of sound on their side, which allows for multiple parts in a single song. We don’t, and while it makes our music rather repetitive, it does allow for a variety of genres and Depth. Both species have variety, just in different dimensions; Cybertronians spread theirs out in longer music, while humans display ours in layers over short bursts (ie, drums, bass, vocals, etc). Different aspects, all at once and each with their own variety that compliments all other aspects or repeats later in the song, often at a different octave to tickle that pleasant part of our brains for that ‘sheer awesomeness’ response. Again, a physiological response that may baffle some Cybertronians, and leads to—
Third: the Human Response to music. Music isn’t a necessity to survival. It took Cybertronians probably millions of years to think ‘hey, these vocalizations in concert sound kinda neat, maybe I could share this,’ while humans have made millions of songs in less than a decade. It is such a pleasurable activity, to create, to share, to listen, to consider, to remember music, that our bodies physically react; hair raising, spine-tingling, eye-dilating, smiling, weeping, memory-inducing, thought-provoking human music. Idk if there are any “reproductions” of Cybertronian music someone tried producing out there, but dang, it’s gotta be wildly different from anything we could ever come up with.
And I’m here for it. :) I wanna see reaction videos of Cybertronians listening to human music, and vice versa.
This is absolutely genius! Love how you framed this and your ideas!
Music is such an inextricable part of being human, I can definitely see this being a way we end up bonding.
Not to shitpost on your beautiful concepts, but it also brings to mind Jazz offering to play some music from Cybertron that really slaps, then smiling and standing there in total silence to see how you react.
(He’s not actually playing music.)
(Will you agree it slaps or fess up, he wants to know. For SpecOps reasons. Totally.)
(Then someone makes the mistake of teaching him what a Rickroll is and things happen)
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