Memory, Power & Control

I have so much I'm excited to share with you! I have the next couple of posts planned, but I have to prep you a bit because it's about to get deep - both scientifically and spiritually. 

There isn't a strong flow between each of the sections below as it is meant to inspire your own research, not teach you everything you want to know. I can fuel your passion, but you must act on it and permeate that state if you wish to realize your ambitions.

Music and Dying
The imprint music leaves with you lasts longer than almost any other expressions you encounter throughout your life. Retirement homes and Dementia therapists are starting to use music more and more to revive the fire of life - if only temporarily.

And...

Here is a neat article about a documentary you should watch!


Savants
Savantism, the wonders of severe Asperger's syndrome. Researchers have found that Savants (and many people with Asperger's) have MORE neural connections than the typical person, suggesting that we too could develop the amazing skills they have without the deficits. This isn't a crazy idea, many many spiritualists throughout history have claimed to develop "abilities" as they work to perfect their body, mind, and soul. It's legit.

Check out this video and be inspired!

And this one...

It's amazing how far senses can be developed when the other senses and social norms aren't distracting us from that potential. Your memory is limited by belief. You can force your mind to function in miraculous ways. Like willing a lucid dream, you can will recollection and performance and more if you actualize and master those functions and mental connections, unifying them all to One will of your truest self - utilizing your timeless and all-pervading nature.


Ideasthesia
A form of synesthesia that relates to us all. This TED talk is solid.

Sound therapy
Not the kind where misguided do-gooders play guitar for sick children. Honorable, but the science of holistic tone therapy is emerging and miraculous. We've talked about binaural, isochronic, and monaural tones HERE, but I have since discovered it gets even better.

Give this site a good browse.

I could say a lot about this, but I suggest you learn through experience. Reading and rationalizing will only get you so far, to find truth you need to feel for yourself. Play different tones on your body in meditation and FEEL the results for yourself.

Give my song HONE a listen. This consistently causes people to recall childhood memories, engaging several aspects of mind and body. Drift.




Mantras
Not chanting, I'm referring to vocalized (and thought) tones that have a very real effect. Placebo or not, whether it's the tone or a mechanism behind it, there is an effect. You have two (at least) sets of vocal cords, vibrating these in particular ways can affect regions and functions of your body. Think cymatics (I wrote about cymatics here) but caused by your own internal sound generator and affecting your own organs. This is taking what I've talked about so far and bringing it home, internalizing and practicing the physics you are now aware of. There is a reason so many cultures have used mantras for so long, and I invite you to play with it yourself instead of sitting there applying your judgments.

I suggest trying different vowels and in different notes and intensities, experimenting to find an effect you like. Start with the famous ones, like OM or AH. Hold them while focusing attention on different parts of your body, trying to feel where certain sound are felt, and reversing the process to stimulate organs and read the associating frequencies.

I suggest UHHHH from the stomach, AHHH from the throat, OHHHH mentally (no physical location, use it on your astral space - your day dream plane). End each note with an MMMM sound you feel running from your forehead to throat to stomach. You can do all 3 simultaneously, while holding awareness of FEELING your physical sensations in addition to SEEING the mental effect and KNOWING the flow and patterns between them all. Mantra's are a mediating power, they train you to stimulate the organs and pathways without the need of a mantra - once you naturally realize the controlling mechanism of vibrations paired with destination. Placebo is a fantastic medium that allows you to form REAL connection and control.


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- MEDIC -

Sound Is Powerful

With this post I begin to relate the power of sound to other types of waves. I encourage you to post comments or drop me an email about what you'd like more of. This is just the beginning - we will get deep into psychology and science; exploring topics such as perception, quantum physics, manipulation, and spirituality.

In the first science post, Sound Is Fascinating, I posted videos demonstrating Cymatics, the matter-manipulating quality of sound. Today, holistic healing practitioners use the term 'toning' to describe the use of sound waves transmitted through the human body in order to normalize imbalances and synchronize the cells' frequencies back to their natural, healthy state of vibrational resonance. It's called Vocal Toning. It's being done to achieve other states too and with a wider range of frequencies than the voice can create, especially in music.

These scientists suggest the brain commands the body through frequencies. Your voice expresses the condition of your body and is commanded by the brain. You only hear what your brain can generate, and you brain generates tones to command body and perception of thus.

"the voice, which we analyze with a computer, is a great indicator of vitality. The voice is one of the most powerful avenues of human expression and as such, provides a very useful analog for the systems of the body. According to Dr. Alfred Tomatis, among others, the voice is not able to reproduce what the ear cannot hear. Perhaps the ear cannot hear what the brain cannot generate. There is evidence that the brain, in addition to being a master chemist, is a very complex tone generator and commands the systems of the body through frequency."

Editor comments: Maybe you are only aware of what you command, even subconsciously? If you don't match tones with outside stimuli you are oblivious to it. To be aware of, to see, feel, or hear, you brain must reproduce a representation of it in order for you to experience it, for it to exist in your universe. What you hear and see come from inside.

This book teaches you how to gain control over your voice and listening skills to help improve confidence and self-awareness.

Kirsten Nelson says music can help you engage in life.

Sound is vibrational energy. It ripples through matter distorting its placement. Our amazing brains are able to interpret some of these distortions to manifest the experience of "hearing". As discussed in previous posts, sound is much more than a means of communication. Try to relate the information below to cymatics (the video I've posted showing sand forming pattern to different frequencies).

Powerful Vibrations: 8Hz and 432Hz
8Hz is special. It is the resonating frequency of the earth's "heartbeat", called the Schumann effect. It is also the frequency that DNA must be tuned to in order to replicate. When the two hemispheres of our brain are synchronized at 8Hz, neural communication is most fluid and EEG brain signals are strongest. 8Hz is the brains alpha state and is associated with relaxation, meditation, and clarity.

432Hz
I encourage you all to look this one up. Some say this is the natural frequency of our body and the universe. If 8Hz is "C", then 432Hz is "A" 5 octaves up. It is the "scientific tuning", as this scale is based on universal laws. This tuning was unanimously approved at the Congress of Italian musicians in 1881 and recommended by the physicists Joseph Sauveur and Felix Savart as well as by the Italian scientist Bartolomeo Grassi Landi. However, in 1953 the scale was officially changed worldwide to what we use now, one that is disharmonic and unnatural. The "A" we use now is set to 440 Hz. I beleive this contributes to the issue of false reality and disconnectedness to nature that our society suffers from.

Snowflake Formation
Dr. Masaru Emoto claims that human consciousness has an effect on the molecular structure of water. Check out his experiments suggesting that labels and intent may play a role in it's crystallization. His experiments have not been verified.

Similar to the McGurk effect, what we see is not what we see. This isn't sound related, but relevant - and necessary. We are Synesthetes after all.

Listen to this.

Sorry for the break in posts. I plan to be more active with my blogs. I haven't been lazy though, a lot of good stuff in the works. I finished a trilogy of symphonic art. Check it out on my soundcloud!

- Medic -

Brainwave Entrainment

Sound is powerful. It has a profound effect on matter, movement, and even brain functioning. Our brains consistently emit specific frequencies when we are experiencing different states of mind. Neuroscientists have been able to reverse the process to induce specific mind states by playing back these frequencies, both through sound and light.

This is 15 minutes, which is as short as the effective ones come. Take the time to experience how easily your entire reality can be manipulated. You *MUST* wear headphones. Close your eyes and meditate (when I say meditate, I mean stop thinking).

The video above uses binaural beats to pull your brain into delta state. This is a state of deep relaxation, you experience this when you're in that half-awake, half-asleep state as you lay in bed on a Saturday morning. Binaural beats play a different frequency in each ear, your brain hears the difference between these 2 frequencies. For example, this video is playing two audible frequencies just 2-4 hz apart, which is a delta wave.

Binaural beats don't work for everyone. I believe our brains are all pretty much the same, so if it doesn't work you're doing it wrong. Nevertheless, they say isochronic tones work when binaural beats don't. Isochronic tones are another form of brainwave entrainment that play tones set to a specific frequency in a repetitive, hypnotic beat. The video below uses isochronic beats to stimulate serotonin and endorphin release. It's long (30 minutes) but it absolutely works and will make you feel verrry nice.

So these kinds of sounds can bring on almost any state and even cause serotonin, dopamine, and endorphin release? Sounds like drugs. The company i-Doser creates complicated brainwave entrainment clips that combine binaural beats, isochronic tones, and various other memory-intrusive sound effects to replicate the effect of drugs. They have LSD, cocaine, pain killers, ecstasy, etc. They also have some more mysterious doses that attempt to pull you into various states of trance and dreaming. Below is clip of someone reacting to an LSD i-dose. I have tested i-doser on 10+ people; screaming, mad twitching, weird arm positioning, and rapid-eye movement is typical. There are some "F" words, sorry.

These kinds of tones are very easy to hide in music. The tones are just as effective when they are too quiet to be detected and when music is played over it. Modern music is full of stuff like this. It's scary, music can have a more powerful effect than most people realize. Imagine if gangster rap and party girl music used these manipulative tones to trance their lyrics into the mind of the listener while associating it with serotonin and endorphin release. That's classical conditioning, psychologists, and it's being used unknowingly to manipulate people. Many kids are being raised by this kind of music, and brainwave entrainment is being used more and more. I'll delve deeper into the ethics of this later on.

Here's a song I made using monaural beats and isochronic tones. It's designed to stimulate peace, relaxation, and serotonin release. It's a work in progress, but... now's a relevant time to release it so whatever. Enjoy :)



-- Medic --

Music (Variety - 2)

Here are some more great songs! This is another variety post. I'm establishing my taste for you guys. There will be a few more like this but eventually I'll post mini-playlists consisting of more similar styles. The goal - if you like my general taste, I'll help you find music you'll like in genres you are unfamiliar with.

Kingande - Jubel

This song blends the best of several genres. It pulls off the magic of electronic music but using real instrumentation (sax-house, anyone?). The second track released by this artist. 

The Glitch Mob - We Can Make The World Stop

Put some headphones on or turn this way up. The producing is impressive. 

Rone - Parade

This song is beautiful. There is a video and a shorter version, but they take away from the perfection that Rone so carefully devised.

Kavinsky - Nightcall

You've probably heard this. If not, you need to. 

Zeds Dead - Divine (Danger Remix) (Zeds Dead ReRemix)

Some great music above! For those of you more interested in the electronic side of things, here's some electro dubstep. I'm not a fan of most dubsteb, but Zeds Dead isn't your typical dubstep producer.

Cathedrals - Unbound

Less electronic, more indie.You'll be seeing a lot more like this. Pay attention to the vocals, it's in the vocal edits that this artist shines.

That's it for this post! I'm building a new site for this blog and others I'm working on. Stay tuned for huge, exciting changes! This blog is just the beginning.

-- Medic --

Sound is Fascinating

Much of this blog will be devoted to the fascinating nature of sound, rhythm, and music. In this post, I will link several interesting articles and videos that may intrigue you. I hope these kinds of posts will spark discussion, especially once I improve the layout and gain followers. For now, feel free to comment!

Natural Frequency
All matter vibrates. Atoms and their composing parts are constantly in motion. Water naturally vibrates at 24hz. What happens when you put a 24hz sine wave (a very quiet sound) to a water spout?

Cymatics
Sound is movement, pressure. It can penetrate our entire body. You may have thought sound is only heard, but it's effect on physical matter is much, much more mysterious. The two videos below are mind-blowing.

The McGurk Effect
Sorry guys, but life isn't at all as it seems. What we see, hear, feel, and think is a hallucinated manifestation of that empty space and abstract experience we sense. This BBC clip demonstrates the McGurk effect, where what we hear changes depending on what we see. Synesthesia, folks.

-- Medic --

Music (Variety - 1)

We'll kick this off with some good, new music! Here are 5 interesting tracks I've found recently. I love where music is headed.

Made in Heights - Murakami
"Sometimes our dreams are so brilliant and our desires so mysterious that we lock them deep inside ourselves to feed and play with only when we sleep...  As if acknowledging them in waking life will betray the veil of control we shroud around our lives. But sooner or later every thought becomes manifest, and every dream finds a way into this world, whether by will or by war." - Made in Heights

How Sad - Indian Summer
Chill new indie artist. Unique vocals and upbeat vibes.

M.I.A - Paper Planes (Nologix Remix)
I like variety. Here's some trap for ya.
Free download on soundclound - https://soundcloud.com/nlgx/m-i-a-paper-planes-nologix

The M Machine - Tiny Anthem
Not so new, but I feel it's a good fit for the intro to this blog.

The Magician's Son - Passion
OMG check out this aMaZInG artist!

-- Medic --

Welcome!

Welcome to my music blog!

My goal with this blog is to help you open your eyes to the mind-expanding quality of sound; to encourage synesthesia of hearing, feeling, thought, and perception. I believe that music is the language of the soul, and by learning to truly listen we can begin to comprehend the music in ourselves and others. I encourage you all to keep an open mind when listening--stop thinking and allow yourself to feel its effect.

I love music. So much, in fact, that I am going into the neuroscience of sound in hopes of understanding (and applying) the power that sound and rhythm have on life. I study psychology and music production, I'm pre-med with plans for medical school, I teach self-therapy through music to autistic teens, and I am passionate about understanding life's mysteries.

I'll post anything music related that I find interesting. I encourage feedback and suggestions.

-- Medic --