Thanks for sharing another example of human perseverance and how adaptive and resilient people can be.
Experiencing music with our entire body not just our ears.
I had the honor of meeting Bob at the PAF 2022 show. I did not know of him prior to our meeting. We were exhibiting there. While playing music for a room full of people I noticed someone waiting for a front row seat. He was carrying a large bag. Once he was seated, he pulled a large balloon looking object out from the bag. I had no idea that the gentleman was deaf. I thought he was conducting some sort of an experiment. After he listened (with the balloon) for a while, he put the balloon back in the bag and then approached me. He explained that he is deaf and enjoys music through the use of the balloon. It acts like a mechanical amplifier for his fingertips. He complimented me on our system and then described its attributes perfectly. From his description you would not know that he heard the system through touch. We spoke for a little while. What an amazing experience. Not only was his ability to enjoy music inspiring but also how adaptive and resilient people can be. I always believed that we experience sound (music) with our entire body, not just our ears. Not just low frequencies but full spectrum. For me, life experiences lead me to that conclusion. I have thought about this for decades. What do you think?
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Thanks to you indeed ! This video is more than amazing it is a seed of hopes...It is one of the best moving and intellectually deep meaningful video i ever see... This video must be seen by all children and all humans... It must be "mandated" ... 😁😊
I think not only you are right but there is more to it ... When we experience sound the ears and the body not only reacted to vibrations but these vibrations are translated by the brain and interpreted by all the other senses... We are not conscious of that... But some blind people used this fact to "see" sound and created their own walking geography around them with emitted "sound" as bats or dolphins ... Some musicians are also caenesthetes... here the violonist speak of colors caenesthesia, but myself i pick geometrical caenesthesia, my "imagination" of music is dynamically linked more to fractals and moving complex forms and "abstract" colors for which i had no name... A symphony for me is a movie.... It is the reason why i love some piece so much i can listen to them hundred or thousand of times as someone in love with a scenery... Nobody can be bored by some earth scenery... the fifth of Bruckner is so deep geometrically that it is a movie about destiny created perfect... When we live in a body , information is filtered and disconnected on the conscious level, but deep underneath all information is linked coming from all senses now united as one "sphere" of meanings.. I discovered few years ago a new information theory explaining just that by the creator of the first artificial brain in India : https://twitter.com/anirbanbandyo?lang=en *I cannot go further on that but This book "nanobrain" is deep and hard to crack, but it is the real artificial intelligence theory... It is mathematics over Turing machine and by the way way over LLM.... When we are "dead" the consciousness of the "ego" does not perceive separate information in a meaningless disparate ways anymore. All sphere of meanings become at the same time completely particular, completely universal and completely individual at the same time in eastern thinking about the Logos or express Satva,Raja and Tama the three gunas In India... This Indian genius explain why with a "musical" geometrical prime numbers dynamics based on pure scientific experiments with time crystals geometry and his own artificial designed jelly brain. We live a transformation time on earth... https://twitter.com/anirbanbandyo/status/1757883876545036765
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