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Subject: music as language
Original Message Date: 23-Apr-00 @ 04:03 PM - music as language
Peaceout
Message 31/44 25-May-00 @ 12:07 PM - RE: music as language
Message 32/44 25-May-00 @ 03:19 PM - RE: music as language
experience ecstasy (relaxed yet energized) from such
environments as parks and hiking trails: ecstasy being
the point of lots of electronic music.
An aside note here: The most pleasing sound to the
human mind is 4.5 decibals of rushing water. Alot of
meditation practitioners focus on the sound of their
breathing to enter the meditative state - the sound we
hear our entire lives. Oddly enough, both of these
sounds, are pretty close to static - sound filled with
random yet somehow always the same frequencies.
So what are you getting at, k, with this colour stuff?
Got any links to the effects of colours on
Message 33/44 27-May-00 @ 10:21 AM - RE: music as language
Ape
Message 34/44 06-Jun-00 @ 03:41 AM - RE: music as language
But seriously folks, any idea of why the earth's r.f. is 10 hz? And is it exactly 10hz, or does it vary, say 9.5-10.5. Okay, here's a far out one: If you blasted a sound loud enough at 10hz (I'm talking only fantasy again) could we rip the earth apart? Ever seen that bridge in washington state, just newly built, in a storm? The wind through the suspension cables generated a sound at the r.f. of the bridge and that fucker just starts getting loosy goosy, swinging around, and osolations increase, and then no more bridge! I wonder if we could do that with the earth? you think? anyone work for the DOD know about that?
Message 35/44 06-Jun-00 @ 02:04 PM - RE: music as language
The 10hz tone of the earth is not audible, maybe not
even audible to anything alive, because it's so low (in
freq. and amplitude). We don't notice it anyways...
It can be measured, and alot of gear used for measuring
ultra-low frequencies has to be dampened or adjusted
for 'background noise' such as the earth's 10hz and
other deformned radio and sound waves.
It probably doesn't vary alot. Any astrophysicists
among us? If it does vary, it would be with our
proximity to the sun, likely - which, oddly enough,
moves in whole fractions. I don't think there's a
quantum theory of gravity yet, so this discussion
dosn't have much to draw on...
For instance, at the earth's furthest point from the
sun being 1, our closest point is exactly 2/3. Plot
that on a musical scale with C being 1, 2/3 of C is G -
perfect harmony. All the planets move in whole
fractions...
Pythagorus based his musical scale on the scaffold of
the planets... he was almost right too - except they
don't travel in perfect circles, they travel in perfect
ellipses.
Anyone find any info on frequency combining and 'nodal'
waves, yet? I haven't found anything in my web travels
yet..
Message 36/44 07-Jun-00 @ 06:22 PM - RE: music as language
Ape
Message 37/44 08-Jun-00 @ 08:15 AM - RE: music as language
engine draws a blank
Message 38/44 09-Jun-00 @ 12:24 AM - RE: music as language
Message 39/44 11-Jun-00 @ 09:23 AM - RE: music as language
I had an experience in my 1st year of studying sitar. I was in my friends house in the countryside playing something I had learned. I talked him into playing the tamboura (a 4-6 stringed instrument, the sole purpose of which is to create a carpet of sound over which to play...like the original pad I guess). It was night and as I was playing I started to hear this beautiful soothing and very powerful sound crescendo, completely in tune with the instruments. Strangley it sounded at first like it was coming from a star I could see through the livingroom window, but then it was omnipresent...coming from everything around me. It lasted for a minute or so I think as I kept playing. It faded and I played for another minute or 2. I remember saying to my friend "WOOOOW! DID_YOU_HEAR_THAT?!!! He answered "Hear what?" and I didn't extropolate on it 'cause it was too big to be missed if you were going to hear anything. Strange why I heard it and someone sitting 3 feet across from me didn't. I wasn't high on anything btw.
Message 40/44 11-Jun-00 @ 03:38 PM - RE: music as language
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