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In Reply to: Musicians have "more sensitive brains"... posted by DN on June 17, 2002 at 02:51:01:
Have you read Robert Jourdain's "Music, The Brain, and Ecstacy"? If you are interested in brain funtion, music, or are trying to deepen your understanding of THE BIG WHY behind our hobby, you should read it. Later.
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It is a book, which, after you buy it, can be read nearly anywhere except underwater. I enjoyed it and have recommended it to friends.C.
... and writers are creative, etc. Isn't this just a left brain, right brain statement of the obvious?
PS Is a sensitive brain a "good thing" in the modern world? I would have thought it to be an anti-survival characteristic, altho' the semblance of sensitivity is sometimes useful when attracting girls.
PPS and does this have anything to do with audio?
Mundi vicit.
". . .altho' the semblance of sensitivity is sometimes useful when attracting girls"Would that it were so. Neaderthals still rule in my experience.
But I love your use of Latin. If I were a girl, I'd be impressed.
I originally meant to put another latin word "fu?it" as the verb but decided this was a little close to the Anglo-Saxon and might upset the moderators! After all the poet who stated "they ?uck you up, your mum and dad" must sometimes have wished he had put "muck" ie when his parents read the phrase! Anyway everyone says enjoy the music - we wouldn't be here if we weren't obsessive about it. :)
Mundi vicit.
It's more than the right vs. left hemisphere dichotomy, which is a gross oversimplification to say the least. In terms of hemispheric specialization, musicians tend to analyze music much the same way that we process the computational aspects of language (in the left-hemisphere). Non-musicians tend to process music in a more wholistic pattern, relying more heavily on right hemisphere specializations.Does this have anything to do with audio? I would say that the most important component in everyone's system is, in fact, the brain--and man does it get tweaked! :)
Cetaele (aka Bob)
Except you could make music into pure maths and of course Bertrand Russell defined all maths as being defined within logic (pace Godel). My whole point is that it is far more complicated than it seems. James Joyce defined creativity (if I remember correctly as I am now in my dotage) as being visual (artists), emotional (musicians) and verbal (writers). Of course the verbal was the highest form, after all he was a writer, but I tend to agree - back when I was young most professional musicians I met were not the brightest - but that could have been due to the smoke and chemical concoctions!
Mundi vicit.
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