Raymond Lull
Check out Raymond Lull's site, it's got all sorts of super metaphysical stuff on it, including some great elemental pieces using 31 ET and the BrainWave Generator. I've been wanting to find some stuff on the direct correlations between specific frequencies and the parts of the body. This is an interesting start.
Also check out this list of microtonal music to be sampled online.
Also check out this list of microtonal music to be sampled online.
posted by Chris Mosley at 11:28 AM
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Updated microtonal listening list: here
Also, I'm trying to keep track of new microtonal music as it is being released/talked about: here
"I've been wanting to find some stuff on the direct correlations between specific frequencies and the parts of the body. This is an interesting start."
Where are you taking this? Are you planning to use brainwaves as a generative process, control stimulus or as raw material? Or are you using this data to manipulate (I mean that in the nicest way) the listener?
I am interested in the correlation between specific frequencies and parts of the body, and also the effect of harmonic intervals on the physical and subtle bodies because it seems to me to be the next step in our general understanding of musical harmony, and, as my basic intention in playing music is to help people spiritually evolve, it would create further alignment between my overall purpose and what I choose to play at a given time. There is really no better way for a human being to deal with something than to have the 'problem' area resonated into a higher state.
Does that mean that you believe that (a) since certain desirable (physiological) states result in certain brain waves, that, conversely, mimicking those brain waves will result in desirable states, and (b) that the purpose of music is to manipulate the audience (to make them better people).
Please don’t take it this as a criticism, I’m just curious… although wouldn’t say I wholly agree with you here ;-)
S,
I don't think I would use the phrase 'manipulate the audience to make them better people' but I think it's undeniable that music has a very strong affect on people and we should concern ourselves with what we want to be doing for them. At every musical turn, people are challenged in some way. If the challenge is too daunting, many people will give up and turn off, but if they stick throught the tension to the resolution, they basically experience a personal growth of some kind. I see this as a kind of resonance, meaning a part of the listener was caught by a part of the music and through the tension-resolution process, that part of the listener will come out vibrating at a higher resonant frequency. What I suggest is that we pay attention to musical/vibrational relationships we can draw to the experience of the listener so that music will become a greater tool for spiritual refinement.
The deeper we go into the twists and turns of our beings, the finer grain of sound strucures we will need; thus my interest in microtonal tuning systems and the correlations between intervals and tones to our physical and spiritual bodies.
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