You mean there are actually some relevant posts pertaining to list members'
thoughts on MUSIC?!?!? How dare you! Don't you know that the IDM list is
all about being ultra swank and cool?
Anyway, this is somewhat related, but a bit off topic from the initial
post...BUT, I recently read an article pertaining to a small percentage of
people who are able to describe tastes as geometric shapes. They
interviewed this guy who was talking about how a certain taste, say, "sour",
for example, tasted like triangles. Really strange, but I suppose it ties
into that whole aesthetic of relating emotion to sound on some
scatterbrained, mescaline trip type of level. Good stuff, this is what the
list SHOULD be all about...my humble opinion of course...
JS
quoted 42 lines From: "Robert Long" <cosmodrome@hotmail.com>
>From: "Robert Long" <cosmodrome@hotmail.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] Music
>Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:10:52 -0500
>
>I agree, this is an interesting topic. I would like to throw my own
>thinking out there.
>
>As far as imagry and emotions evoked by specific music, i think that the
>main factor influencing this is culture. Someone from a western
>culture(USA for example) would most likely have a similar response to
>someone from a similar western culture. However comparing someone frome
>the US to someone from say, Uganda would most likely begin to yield
>differences.
>
>However i think there are some properties of music that are universally
>recognized. BPM would be the first to come to mind. above 133 and i
>believe anyone would describe this as fast. This may have to do with the
>body's own rhythm of heartbeats which is usally less than 80 or 70 bpm.
>
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>>Someone else in the thread mentioned about how music highlights
>>certain aspects of experience - listening to a song suggests a
>>particular way of looking at a landscape for instance.
>>But it is interesting why people often associate colours, textures or
>>images with particular kinds of sounds. i wonder how these
>>associations are related to past experiences when listening to the
>>same/or similar pieces of music. i wonder if there is a systematic
>>way of explaining that?
>
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