Sunday, September 13, 2009

the fabric of our lives

(click for video)

From what you saw in the video, different frequencies of sound form more and more complex repeating waveforms. This phenomenon is called cymatics. That is, when a certain pitch is played, the frequency actually makes the sand form into patterns physically.

Now lets remember, all that music is, is a set of different frequencies put together to form harmony(or sometimes dissonance). For the sake of this argument, we are going to call these frequencies music to make it a little simpler.

Have you ever listened to a song that made you feel something? Happy, sad, angry? In the 16th century the church actually banned a set of notes called a "tritone", a musical interval that spans three whole tones, because of its dissonant qualities, which they attributed to the devil. . The church used to call it "diabolus in musica" which means "the Devil in music".

They banned it because they thought it would inspire evil in people. I agree in part.

If music is able to form complex patterns in matter (the sand from the video), who's to say that music doesnt actually effect us on a physical level? If music can form the patterns, in theory listening to music would cause the molecules of your body to actually move the same way. We as people made of matter are completely open to osmosis from anything around us. On a very basic level we are just clouds of atoms working together, with space between, as far as we know. The music plays, and we are moved, literally.

Maybe what we seem to think of music that, say makes us sad for example, on a deeper level, it is actually connecting the matter together for us like a glue. Connecting memories of sadness with the actual physical pattern from the music that our mind relates to sadness.

All songs are different. They all carry the emotion of the artist and their hard work. On their end, they pour emotion into the song, making an almost intimate moment out of creating music, unbeatable by even the greatest experience in your life. Making music is like having a child, or going through the most powerful experiences you know. So why not then, with the infinite power of the mind, would the subconscious mind form the music into an extension of the emotion put into it?

On the listeners end, you hear the song, and begin to feel like they felt. Everyone has had that one song that they completely relate to, good, bad, and everywhere in between. On a subconscious and physical level, we begin to connect with the artist who made the music.

Now, sound is produced by vibrations over time, and arent we all taught that molecules are always vibrating?

So even the frequencies around us from vibrating molecules effect us. One begins to fully understand this after having an encounter with a psychedelic drug. You begin to feel the emotions of people around you, Its not pretend, any slight change in mood amongst any individual in the group will change the mood of the whole group. When you begin to feel something else then what you have been feeling, the matter in your body begins to move in a different pattern, and than pattern then transfers into you and vice versa. You begin to feel what they do, on a completely molecular level, because of the vibrations, frequencies and changes in the patterns of "sand" aka your own molecules.

So with all of this "music" around us, intentional or not, don't you think that somewhere in the sand, patterns begin to emerge that effect us in certain ways? With constantly moving molecules, we are always open to emotional and physical changes, and those molecular vibrations associated with the changes. Then you begin to think, I don't have an effect on anyone, but really, you effect everyone you ever meet and don't meet, you just don't know it.

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