source file: mills3.txt Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 19:37:37 +0200 Subject: ears and music (or sound) From: bq912@freenet.uchsc.edu (Neil G. Haverstick) Paul...Haverstick here...I'll take the bait, and just in time to quote from the November 1997 of GUITAR mag. You mentioned in your last post that "once you shut off your ears, the whole effect disappears." Yikes...check this out (from GUITAR)..."The Army and Navy have been developing acoustic weaponry, wherin audio frequencies can be tuned to lethal levels." Later, it says a certain company "has built a device designed to make human internal organs resonate with results ranging from a simple shudder to intense discomfort to death." Of course, this may not be "music," per se, but it is sound, and music is sound, and this devilish device obviously bypasses the ears to really reach folks in a deep and profound way. I am not trying to be cute here at all...my concept of music is very broad, and does not just include what we hear with the ears, or even what exists on this planet...it is, needless to say, an awesome Universe, and the potential fo what "music" is most likely goes way way beyond our Earthly experiences. As well, yogis such as Paramahansa Yogananda have taught methods of meditation that involve listening for internal sounds that may very well bypass the mechanisms of the inner ear. Far fetched? I don't think so...my inner hearing has changed drastically over the last 20 years, and I know I hear things that are not part of the "external" world. One's personal belief system certainly affects the way they percieve art, or life in general. Again, my concept of music is a part of my overall concept of life, and my life view is that we humans are a teensy weensy part of an unbelieveble Creation, with potentials beyond, perhaps, what we have traditionally been led to consider. I enjoy these discussions, as they enrich my mind and spirit...Hstick SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Carl Lumma Subject: Tell your friends PostedDate: 26-10-97 01:44:57 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 26-10-97 01:43:59-26-10-97 01:43:59,26-10-97 00:44:36-26-10-97 00:44:37 DeliveredDate: 26-10-97 00:44:37 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C125653C.000405D6; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 02:43:56 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA27239; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 02:44:57 +0200 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 02:44:57 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA27580 Received: (qmail 17300 invoked from network); 25 Oct 1997 17:44:54 -0700 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Oct 1997 17:44:54 -0700 Message-Id: <19971026004750828.AAA307@NIETZSCHE> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu