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There can be no underestimating the importance of music in our lives. In fact, the lives of all things which exist as (individuals and/or collectives of) matter (organic, and even inorganic) are at one, both reliant upon and INSTRUMENTAL in the processing of music.

This is because music is more than the popularly understood music defined by humanity. On a raw physical level, music is the patterned progression of sound energy, best observed and conducted by any medium which is capable of conducting such energy. The additional properties of intensity, melody and rhythm are more consistent with the nature of sound energy as a waveform, traveling through anything willing to conduct it.

The ability of mediums to conduct such patterned sound is totally controlled by the material comprising that medium. The nature of sound energy itself is unchanged in composition, as it is the rule that every emitter of sound (as aside from the emission's output of electric, magnetic and subsequent translated energies like light and heat) must itself be of a greater internal store of power than its surrounds (laws of thermodynamic conservation and entropy). Further, the surrounding conducting media must not only allow for passage of this sound energy, but must also break down the signal via decay (decreasing intensity and strength) - this process is done in a regulatory way via inverse-square law translation (the initial signal strength decays by a root factor with each unit of distance from the emission source). Finally, via the other subtle properties of sound energy, the signal is dependant on its conductor (or 'listener') body's ability to allow passage of the signal as a tuned set of FREQUENCIES, within a resonating (oscillating) grouping of WAVELENGTHS, all of which are compatible with the internal structure of the conducting medium.

The conduction of sound is solely controlled by initial output sound as a compressional/shear longitudinal waveform, and subsequent factorial breakdown through materials which possess internal atomic and molecular bonding arrangements capable of maintaining the energy's flow and form. From large scale sound waves as earthquake waves, to the indistinguishable hi-frequency spectrum of ultrasonic sound, all these waves have the same function and behaviour. Only their wavelength and frequency (and resultant after-effects such as reverberation, sustain and interference patterns) and medium conductance are the influencing factors on the flow and intensity

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