Seeing sounds and music.....


Seeing music and sounds ...

Listening music and sound organized waves in your room may be translated in perceived geometrical and topological, fractal flowing of animated forms embodied in each microdynamic flowing note....In attentive focus but relax listening...Like a psycho- acoustical imaginary geometry....Like a " cartoon story" in your head....

Music here is no more only melody, rythm, harmonies, but also a potential "story" displayed in visible forms...It is the interface emerging/vanishing imaginary world between a sound and a musical note...

Synesthesia between sound and colors exist but also synesthesia could be between sound and forms...This specific synesthesia is probably more common and could be a great help in fine tuning a room with our ears....

Each series of notes is an history and a " being" with an expressive figure flowing, walking or swimming or flying in pure POTENTIAL meaning...

Pure POTENTIAL meaning being the dynamical interconnectedness of all the musical notes and the forms phenomena appearing to our eyes with it....

The sound not only convey POTENTIAL meaning though, but reflect also the way this meaning is communicated by pure acoustical 3-d incarnations of each sound reflecting itself the acoustical properties of your Speakers/room/ears...

POTENTIAL Meaning experienced is then perceived in a specific acoustical PERSPECTIVE and takes, related to your room geometry, topology, acoustical content, in furnitures and material treatment surfaces, but also experienced in the limits and the controlled way your system/speakers are WED to a room specifically designed for them by possible Helmholtz controls devices in my case or other possible acoustic devices....

Sound could be "seen" and must not be a surface ever, always a 3-d individualized body in space...It is the goal....

Anyway no sound comes from the speakers, save in a bad room... Sound is an expanding and rythmic sphere of living dynamic whose 2 centers are the speakers at one focus and yourself at the other focus....The 2 foci are interpenetrated rythmic beating hearts.... Because what belong to the specific characteristics of your speakers/system and what belong to your ears are coupled together.... This is my experience....

In this breathing ellipse, there, float like mobile islands on a sea, many pressures zones expressing and surging themselves in the encounter between speakers and ears/ room content and form....


This is my experience listening and seeing music....

How others perceive sound and music experience ?

This is why it is important to control in a relative way the acoustic of the room because the POTENTIAL meaning of the sound and music wedding, are often only a surface, or a distorted fraction of the potential acoustic perceived sphere in non controlled and non treated room INSTEAD of being a 3-D BEING....

Acoustic is the sleeping princess and all the pieces of gear are the 7 working dwarves... Be the prince and awake the princess...

I begin this thread for helping people to "IMAGINE" what could be musical/acoustic "ectasy" or "seeing"....




We always listen WITH our system THROUGH the controlled room/speakers the "recreated acoustic translation" of a past lived event which becme an ACTUAL different acoustical event ...


Most people think the opposite:

They think they listen WITH their uncontrolled room/speakers ,THROUGH their system the electronical "reproduction" of a lived PAST event....

Anyway there is no PERFECT FIDELITY between a lived event and a recorded one....The other complementary act of FIDELITY is in the way your speakers/room will translate and recreated some or all the choices which had taken place at the moment of the recorded event.... The recording information which is a surgical 2-d surface extract of the 3-d lived original lived event and the translation and recreation of it in your room in a 3-d Spheroid, is greatly determined by the relation between speakers/ears/room.... On par and sometimes more than by the choice of the gear itself...

Ok i am not a scientist at all....All my post is only " subjective impressions in me" linked to my material acoustical experiments journey...

I try to conveyed here my experience of the last 2 years in words....

You can speak to me about your experience and what you think...

Those whose brain cannot fathom " meaning" and are ideologically deaf could remain silent....


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If you want to test your system....

The most spectacular and difficult piece of recording i have to test all aspects of sound including hearing from speakers a recording where the sound COME AROUND the listener and often BEHIND HIS BACK all that with a stereo system...Believe me or not...😁😊

Philip Glass : AKHNATON


Here the great variety of sound timbres and frequencies, solo and choral voices with Wagnerian tuba and percussions...

A great part of the sound fill my room with often voices not only BESIDE me at left or right, but voices and instruments behind my listening position at the direct opposite of the 2 speakers...

A well done acoustical stereo room is almost quadraphonic in effects with some well recording piece in my experience....

This cd is impossible to beat for testing the presence of individual instruments and voices perfectly distinguished by their timbre in this enormous mass of musicians....The test for bass will be astoundingly good because of the timbre variety of the different instruments in the bass register...

The best test for any system is timbre voice, because each human voice own an individuality unique to living system and gives a set of acoustical subtle acoustical cues impossible to hear with any instrument ...
And a big mass of instruments or enormous chorals are very difficult to be and stay musically detailled and not mainly indistinct noises on less good system and no controlled room...






This works is also an astounding piece of musical genius which i will resume in this description, which is exactly only that, a description in my words, the way the composer summarize all the history of music in his own way:


You will "see" around you and not only hear, a huge cosmical and tellurically grounded Wagnerian and Scriabinian opera, transforming itself sometimes in a big orchestral Brucknerian symphony which at times become a beautiful complex Monteverdian madrigals set which hide the germs of sublime but ONLY emerging simple masterful counterpoints mantras like in Bach or Bruckner, that ends often in a powerful chord or a ceremony of drum rolls or an incantatory recitative like in shamanic ritual of the past mixed with pre-gregorian influences....Astoundingly deep, efficient, and beautiful musically...

All musical genres fusionned here in a minimalist style in plain control, inspired by one of the master of the young Glass, the blind street musician classically educated Moon Dog, the so called Viking of the 50 th street at N.Y. friend of the young Glass and one of the creator of this "minimalist" style or at least a mentor of the young Glass....

No doubt here, Philip Glass is a great composer who will stay for the future history....

His Akhenaton is hypnotic at the highest level.....
@mahgister

I have never been exposed to ideas put forth by you and others. So I thanks you for making me aware of these things, even though I have never had such things

For me, music has filled many needs over my lifetime. It has been a life long friend. it helped me in the lonely times when growing up as an only child. It helped me forget the weight of the problems I faced and still do face at times. It is one of the few places which I leave the cares of the world behind. I most often think about the beauty of the system. Not the stereo system but the system which holds everything together and how, despite overwhelming odds at times, I have always had everything I needed. I'm often reminded of how God Himself must love music. I say that because The Book of Psalms is the longest in the Bible and perhaps the easiest to find. It is right there in the middle of the Book.

I've laughed at some of the lyrics in blues songs which convey terrible situations in such amusing light. Blues says, " life often sucks but we will go on". It’s the message of life itself. I've cried. at Mozart's Clarinet Concerto at my mother's death. I cried as much at the beauty of the music and an afterlife that she now enjoys as much as I cried at my loss. This is just a few examples of my emotion and the beauty which music brings and life situations it highlights.

Music takes me away from a world which is often highlighted by man's cruel & inhumane treatment of his fellow man. A world which has lost its ability to live & let live & to agree to disagree. A world where you are seemingly forced to take a side because walking independently with your own thought gets you mocked and ridiculed by both sides
           
As to colors and flowery psychedelic images have never seen this from music alone.
Thanks for your beautifully written moving post artemus_5

By the way all of us are able to train our attention neuronal mechanism...We are all "golden ears" some had teach themselves a bit more, like Steve Kisch, thats all....

And listening is not about acuity or accuracy first and only , it is first about coordinating the 2 ears together and coordinating the visual and hearing system of the body /brain moving eyes or ears or his members body....Hearing become listening a conscious/subsoncious "yogic" activity of the focal and peripheral attention like in subtle breathing ....

Acoustic complement music like the 2 brains hemispheres complement each other....


my deepest respects....