Music in other densities

you know it is funny that a lot of people like to sing but many people don't know much about it. there is a really cool DVD you can get (maybe find it on the net) it's called "the zen of screaming" but it's not just about screaming, in this dvd you learn how to sing or scream with proper technique. it was made by a lady called melissa cross. when you sing you have to treat it like you are talking, you have to know the workings of the vocal chords/throat in order not to damage yourself and get the results you want. it's mainly about balancing. when most people go to high notes, they don't even realize that they squeeze too hard, they pull their larnx UP when it needs to stay DOWN so the mouth can be used for a reverb chamber to allow projection of the note. people also get too wrapped up with details like "range". the more i practice singing, the easier it is to hit higher and higher notes, because to keep a note in tune you have to have the proper projection going on, and you must also maintain balance between the pressure in the diaghphram and the vocal chords. the best way to sing is (and i borrow this from the C's and laura) with no anticipation of whether you can hit the note or not. not to mention breathing must be controlled at all times. most people try to go from the chest when they need to use the diaghphram. there are also little tricks such as expanding the sides of the ribcage before the actual breath before you start singing, so you have a tank of reserve air.
 
Realmhiker said:
The strange thing is, since I was a little boy, I was able to see colors when music was played.

Same here. I always thought it was something wrong with me when I found out that this wasn't the norm.
Funny thing, the only other person I know who also see colors is a friend of mine, but we never saw the same colors when we tried to compare while listening to music.
 
Axis Mundi said:
Realmhiker said:
The strange thing is, since I was a little boy, I was able to see colors when music was played.

Same here. I always thought it was something wrong with me when I found out that this wasn't the norm.
Funny thing, the only other person I know who also see colors is a friend of mine, but we never saw the same colors when we tried to compare while listening to music.

I had a girlfriend once that "saw" the days of the week along the side of a circle, varying in size and in different colors. Various different forms of this "mixing of sensory sensations" exist, and they're grouped under the name Synesthesia.

from _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesiae or synaesthesiae)—from the Ancient Greek σύν (syn), "together," and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), "sensation"—is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. [1][2][3][4] People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes.

In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored,[5][6] while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities.[7][8] In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a (three-dimensional) view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise).[9][10][11] Yet another recently identified type, visual motion → sound synesthesia, involves hearing sounds in response to visual motion and flicker.[12] Over 60 types of synesthesia have been reported by people,[13] but only a fraction have been evaluated by scientific research.[14] Even within one type, synesthetic perceptions vary in intensity [15] and people vary in awareness of their synesthetic perceptions.[16]

While cross-sensory metaphors (e.g., "loud shirt," "bitter wind" or "prickly laugh") are sometimes described as "synesthetic," true neurological synesthesia is involuntary. It is estimated that synesthesia could possibly be as prevalent as 1 in 23 persons across its range of variants.[17] Synesthesia runs strongly in families, but the precise mode of inheritance has yet to be ascertained. Synesthesia is also sometimes reported by individuals under the influence of psychedelic drugs, after a stroke, during a temporal lobe epilepsy seizure, or as a result of blindness or deafness. Synesthesia that arises from such non-genetic events is referred to as "adventitious synesthesia" to distinguish it from the more common congenital forms of synesthesia. Adventitious synesthesia involving drugs or stroke (but not blindness or deafness) apparently only involves sensory linkings such as sound → vision or touch → hearing; there are few, if any, reported cases involving culture-based, learned sets such as graphemes, lexemes, days of the week, or months of the year.

Although synesthesia was the topic of intensive scientific investigation in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was largely abandoned by scientific research in the mid-20th century, and has only recently been rediscovered by modern researchers.[18] Psychological research has demonstrated that synesthetic experiences can have measurable behavioral consequences, while functional neuroimaging studies have identified differences in patterns of brain activation.[6] Many people with synesthesia use their experiences to aid in their creative process, and many non-synesthetes have attempted to create works of art that may capture what it is like to experience synesthesia. Psychologists and neuroscientists study synesthesia not only for its inherent interest, but also for the insights it may give into cognitive and perceptual processes that occur in synesthetes and non-synesthetes alike.

There's a dutch documentary about it from back in 2002. It's in dutch, but a lot of the interviewed people are english speaking and there's not so much voice over being done, so I think it's perhaps interesting for non-dutch speakers as well. It's here: _http://noorderlicht.vpro.nl/afleveringen/6506792/
 
i, too, "see" colors when I "hear" music.

BTW, it is my understanding that all STO beings Sing the Song of the All harmonizing together, while STS Sings in a discordand fashion, even with each other.

All there is is the Song. Everything that exists is Music at their most fundamental level.
 
BTW, it is my understanding that all STO beings Sing the Song of the All harmonizing together, while STS Sings in a discordand fashion, even with each other.

as a musician myself, i am unsure what is meant by this statement, are we talking about singing literally or metaphorically?
 
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