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In Reply to: RE: Further readings posted by unclestu52 on September 17, 2009 at 12:26:52
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I remember seeing ads for these sort of audio recordings in Omni magazine, back in the 1980s. I've listened to a few of them, and found them to be variably effective in inducing mental states of alertness or relaxation, appropriate to the the brainwave frequencies being entrained.
The music concealing the entraining frequencies, unfortunately, tended to be the most bland and insipid sort of new age twaddle imaginable. It put me in a much better mental state to listen to REAL music, simply because it SUCKED! (Coil's "Time Machines" album being the exception -- this minimalist/drone/psychedelic/anarchist album could induce truly disturbing shifts of time/space perception).
Indian classical music does indeed entrain a variety of mental states. The various combinations of ragas and talas are based on an ancient science of psychoacoustics, attuning scales, drones, and rhythms to particular vibrational ranges of the human nervous system, and are thus assigned to particular times of day and particular activities.
But I'm not sure at all sure that being in an Alpha, Theta, or Delta brainwave state is conducive to the proper appreciation of most Western music, be it classical, jazz, folk, pop, or whatever. Each individual work in any of those genres has its own mood, its own attitude, and thus will "tune" the mental state of the receptive listener accordingly.
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