where music takes them, and... why — Jack Cummins
I was wondering about the possibility of objective realities lying behind the arts and music. — Jack Cummins
the natural harmonics of notes, how the biggest contributors spell out the major scale, how playing the major scale but starting on the 6th creates a complimentary minor scale using the same notes — Kenosha Kid
shared meanings and experiences of sound and music. — Jack Cummins
Our brains ('survival engines' first and foremost, ergo so many cognitive biases) seek patterns and confabulate patterns when they are lacking – horror vacui (re: "formlessness", noise, silence, darkness, sleep, arbitrary violence, etc). Anyway, more thoughts to come.“Blues music is an aesthetic device of confrontation and improvisation, an existential device or vehicle for coping with the ever-changing fortunes of human existence, in a word, entropy, the tendency of everything to become formless. Which is also to say that such music is a device for confronting and acknowledging the harsh fact that the human situation . . . is always awesome and all too often awful . . . But on the other hand, there is the frame of acceptance of the obvious fact that life is always a struggle against destructive forces.” ~Albert Murray — 180 Proof
This is integral to Schopenhauer's WWR. And Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (though not so much The Case Against Wagner). Also, George Steiner's Real Presences, etc (but avoid Adorno on music). And Albert Murray, who I quote above, his essay collection Stomping the Blues.I guess that I am really asking about the nature of metaphysical realities which may be underlying our appreciation of music. — Jack Cummins
Sound may have such power at a subliminal level. I have even come across the idea that sound can kill. Hopefully, it does not go that far, but I stopped going to metal and punk live events because I did begin to think that it was affecting my hearing, and I think that I do have some difficulty hearing higher pitch sounds. — Jack Cummins
The tongue like a sharp knife, kills without drawing blood. — Fake Buddha quote
I guess that I am really asking about the nature of metaphysical realities which may be underlying our appreciation of music. — Jack Cummins
third ear — Jack Cummins
I wonder how much musical taste is nature or nurture. — Jack Cummins
tuning into the minds of people who made the music — Jack Cummins
Clarify, if you will, what you mean by "rationality" in this context.There is so much which goes beyond rationality ... — Jack Cummins
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