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z6
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 RE: whats your resonance (in reply to Kevin James Shanahan)
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Can I take your first sentence as my new sig? "I've been checking out a lot of physics theories on Youtube"
How low have ZZtop sunk?
We're all made of tiny particles of resonating light? I don't think that's something you should excite yourself over, even if it said so on Youtube.
He was feeling the joy though. His fingers must have been jammed up his butt off camera. And his guitar had no E sharp. That would negate the experiment, no?
And your sound does, in fact, come from your physical interaction with the guitar. (Or, to get a little technical, one bunch of resonating light particles interacting with another 'responding' to 'frequencies'.) If intent were all that mattered I'd be Paco.
Anyway, this guy mentioned his video. How much does it cost and do I have to commit suicide when the spaceship arrives disguised as a comet?
Why is it interesting to you that your 'special note' is A fifth above E? Would a fourth be uninteresting? What if the guitar is out of tune? Do microtones matter in this macro vision of the micro world?
In seriousness, for a moment, there are thousands of wonderful books, not on Youtube with nutjobs trying to steal money from the feeble-minded, that will explain non-bonkers theories. The real story, as far as we, as a species, have been able to find out, is infinitely more interesting. There is an energy-matter equivalency, as Einstein's most famous equation shows, and light is energy. But, and any physicists out there can correct me, it is only a 'belief' that in some corners of the universe, such as neutron stars, where there are unimaginably strong magnetic fields, there could be photon-photon collisions that result in the creation of matter. (Or possibly in a particle collider, and only for trillionths of a second.)
That is to say, no amount of tofu or positive thinking will have any bearing on what we are made of or whether we can commune with some inner physical core... with our guitars in C major.
You're 'avin' a laugh mate, an't ya? Nice video though. I watched it to the end... just in case.
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Date Sep. 21 2012 23:44:24
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estebanana
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RE: whats your resonance (in reply to z6)
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Here's your homework for the weekend. Go to the orchestral thread (like it, don't like it, etc.) scroll down to Estebanana's posting of the Webern and write down how many perfect fifths (or to be more 'rigorous' root/fifth perfect fifths) aren't there. (You will be test
Interesting...those pieces of Webern are 12 tone compositions. Previous to atonal composition in Western classical music harmonizing in fifths was almost always a sin. It was done, but not a lot. Gesualdo and Wagner, who lived three centuries apart are the main offenders. Harmonic movement in fifths is generally found in Asian musics from China, Japan and some South East Asian countries.
I've never thought of fifths as pleasing in themselves, but V-I or IV-I resolutions to chord sequences resulting in that back to tonic cadence is good. It keeps you for going crazy if they let you hang without closing. There are false cadences in Western music, Beethoven mastered them and used them all over the place. Beethoven's false cadences remind me of the way extra sixes work in flamenco, they almost close, but keep on rolling until they do close keep yo in suspense.
In Bach I often find the most amazing, pleasing or profound interval leaps in any music. Seldom are those leaps fifths unless they are closing a line and need to be fifths to give closure.
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Date Sep. 22 2012 2:05:35
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z6
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RE: whats your resonance (in reply to Kevin James Shanahan)
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Synesthesia is an involuntary reported phenomenon with gargantuan amounts of reports ranging over hundreds of years.
Some researchers believe they are getting closer to an understanding using brain imaging.
Also, it has the added bonus of not sounding completely nuts. It seems as if the people who report it somehow get their senses, or processing gear, mangled in some way.
Implying that Kiko is stating something similar to this guy and his fingerbutting is missing a phenomenon that really is interesting.
The way you open your guitar case may indeed have some bearing but I would guess it is so small as to forever remain pointless to even bother about. For example, the way a pool hustler opens his cue case would provide evidence, to the trained eye, of his level of skill, and thus offer an edge to an opponent who might be aware of the level of 'handicap' he would require to make some money.
Ergo, the way you open your guitar case might tell the trained eye whether you can play or not, before you have even touched the guitar.
But no waves or particles or quantum effects will be massaging your actual ability. That is already where it is and where it will go according to hard work and study and experience.
This is not a matter of open- or closed-mindedness it is nothing more than recognizing delusional or corrupt behaviour. (The preacher may believe he has a close relationship with his maker but that does not stop him from making a good living out of the gullible.)
Synesthesia is just a name for what seems like a very wide variety of reported experience, but that fact that such similar experiences are reported across vast scales of time and geography, and culture implies it is an area worth pursuing; especially since it is often accompanied by profound abilities. (For example, I once saw a young boy play piano. He was 12 years old. He was simply insanely talented. He babbled on and on about how he saw everything in colors. Everything he played he saw in colors. He had over forty concertos in his repertoire. His teacher said the usual stuff about photographic memory, etc., and I don't know what happened to him. Maybe he ended up competing with all the other crazy virtuosos out there? Maybe he walked into the sea. I do not know. But he wasn't even aware that such things were unusual.)
Your guy is just a boob. But you're entitled, like the rest of us, to use any and all psychological tricks or crutches to help our progress or knowledge.
But there are differences. Religion and science battled long ago and religion lost.
People can believe what they believe. But Kiko doesn't have to believe in what is currently called synesthesia for those reported effects to exist. Indeed, 'accusing' Kiko of demonstrating some kind of belief, similar to your own, touches upon some of the most interesting areas of science and the real differences between loony tunes beliefs (e.g. fairies, or visions of Jesus, or light particles vibrating in such a way as to induce a personal resonant frequency, in a Western scale.) and as yet not understood phenomena.
And remember that the reporters of these phenomena are almost entirely unaware that such a thing has a name, or even that others do not have the same experiences. This is not some pathetic creature talking s h i t, it is a body of evidence that bears further investigation, even though that evidence is mostly reports of personal experiences.
Personally, I always open my guitar case very carefully. I've dinged more guitars than I'd care to mention. But unless I actually concentrate quite hard when I open the case, I end up putting the guitar in ding peril.
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Date Sep. 22 2012 16:29:05
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Ruphus
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RE: whats your resonance (in reply to z6)
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ORIGINAL: z6
Why isn't everyday reality enough?
Well said!
And damn, how exactly this question is spinning around my head while watching the world go down.
It´s not that mysthicism or the unknown ought to be strictly rejected. Only if people knew the significant difference between considering something very vague and the one of strongly believing in it.
There have been quite a number of weird / unexplainable appearing orrurances in my personal life, yet not necessarily making me a believer of metaphysics.
And when nothing else in reach I have freed former girl friends from diverse kind of aches by laying on of hands.
Though it appeared to work, it never made me swear by it or enforcing. Rather did I forget about it until my dogs got severally sick with slim chances according to the doc and his means. He then was surprised that they did survive.
Similar when the two male dogs became painfully effected by a desease called Panosteitis. First with Charlie who developed worse and worse until ... He healed right after me in the end tried to help. Same with his brother Hermann whome I treated days ago, with him improving right afterwards, now being almost fully back to order.
Yet, as long as individuals fancying to heal by laying on of hands are being proven unable to verify blindly whether others´limbs are being held under their hands, I file the procedure as vague and imaginative.
The actual and definite of this world is so unbelievable, surprising, thrilling or shocking, and that while yet well informed individuals are having a clue of only just a minute particle of the fascinating reality out there.
Why the hell, for any other reason than shirking from the challenge of learning and recognizing, would people seek and evade to superstition? Let alone replacing the difinitely known by Jumbo Mumbo, wearing down, warshipping and even killing for fancy.
The answer is cowardliness before sober entity, and mental laziness. For, the comfort with superstition is being the quick and instantly ready answer.
The simplicity of mental escape has led us to the brink.
Ruphus
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Date Sep. 22 2012 16:35:19
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