Have you ever been in a place where the music that’s playing grates on your nerves? It could be one song or everything on an album causes anxiety, fear, frustration, anger or a myriad of other unpleasant emotions. What causes negative musical reactions? We all know that music affects people…
The research into water memory is in its infancy. What scientists are discovering is how little we really know about the properties of water. What are they beginning to understand? Water carries a memory of what it comes in contact with.
Water memory is a topic of heated debate in the science community. However, enough scientists have ventured out into the proverbial “possible falling limb” world of water memory that the risk is worth it. Science is a wonderful thing. However, even Einstein met with resistance when his theories didn’t line…
There are as many different concert pitches as there are notes on a piano. Well… almost. What do I mean by that? Although there are other concert pitch articles on this site, I’ll quickly give you the low down. Setting the concert pitch requires tuning all notes to one specific…
There are old Chinese proverbs and many other ancient writings that talk about the power of our words. But, where do our words actually come from? They don’t just pop out of thin air! Well, I would say that’s most of the time. Under inspiration, some incredible stuff has come…
For many years, I’ve been fascinated with sound resonance. I guess much of that came out of working with musical acoustics specialists during the writing of my dissertation. My topic was a strange one – looking inside the mouths of clarinet players to see how the tongue moved while playing.…
“Cymatics?” you ask. Simply put, the term “cymatics” was coined by Hans Jenny in the 1970’s as a way of describing how to visualize sound. Up until recently, the only method of “seeing” sound was by taking a violin bow and rubbing it along a metal plate that was covered…
There’s a saying that “music tames the savage beast.” If you think back to Biblical examples, every time an evil spirit tormented Saul, he called David to play his harp. Eventually, Saul would be consoled and David would go about his business. Fast forward to the year 2017 and you’ll…