Hi, I just want to say this is such a great thread! I'm a music lover as well. I also love singing, it makes me happy, even if I'm the only one listening lol. For me, there's something about singing that's just so wonderful. Like if I'm feeling down or not very confident, singing makes me feel better. Like I have to let out what's inside of me, that if I'm not able to express myself like that, then I just won't feel that good, like it's detrimental or something..

Spines, I listened to one of your songs and it's really good! I think ambient and techno music are amazing. Although I've only recently gotten into ambient. The thing I love about ambient music, is that it feels great to listen to. It feels really peaceful, well most of the songs I've listened to anyway. It seems like it makes you think more too. Well it probably does because most of the songs I've heard go for awhile.

Hey, I wonder if mainstream society listened to classical, jazz, ambient or just good music etc. more, instead of Britney Spears and all, if the world would become a better place? Maybe instead of listening to music that's materialistically-based, people wouldn't feel the need to consume more or kill other people? Just my thoughts

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i have been writing and playing music for about 10 years now and have played with some of the most musically gifted individuals anyone could ever imagine. i dont know if any one else can attest to this, but when i listen to music i can truly feel the vibrations and harmonics "flow" throughout my brain, its almost a state of pure ecstasy. i have always wondered if any one else gets these feelings. but anyway, you should do some research on the universal harmonic resonance and the harmonic convergence that runs through all of us, as well as, the universe. there is a tune we should all be listening to and it is always playing for us whether we are listening or not.

Great post...and I could not agree more OP!!

Music is as much a part of the human condition as anything. For many, including myself, it is a basic necessity of life. Think about the profound influence and affect music has on the human psyche and the human mood.

They say that music calms the savage beast, and in many situations this is very true. Music has a gigantic impact on human emotion and mood. It can be used to incite visions of beauty and peacefulness, it can also be used to pump up emotions and to motivate people to action, it can move a person to tears and also move a person to think. It is personal and political, joyous and meloncholy, a triumph of the human experience, it truly is the alpha and omega.

Animals respond to music, so do plants, there have been cases of people who have been in a deep coma, only to be brought out by the outward sounds of music being played. It is truly magical. For whatever reason it has always had a profound inpact on me personally, more so than written or spoken word, more so than almost anything else.

Music is universal, a divine gift from the Gods

For the record I am a musician also, have been playing guitar and writing music for over ten years. It is pretty much the only thing I do that I would consider a true passion, and would continue to make music even if I never saw a dime for it or ever had any exposure.

Everyone needs an outlet I suppose, for me it is therapeutic and one of the only interests that have stuck with me through out the years. In my opinion there is nothing quite like creating something from nothing and making it your own. Creativity is great in any form.



Cheers to all of the musicians and music lovers out there


Edit to add: If anyone out there would like to check out some good music, I have a Myspace page devoted to some of my biggest influences. Just shoot me a U2U and I will send you a link

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This is very interesting.

On a sidenote: Does anyone create beautiful melodies in their sleep, and then when you wake up, you can barely remember it?

That happens to me very often. I'll be dreaming, and in my dream, I'll make up the prettiest melody in about 3 seconds. It just comes out of nowhere. And nomatter how hard I try to remember the melody, when I wake up, half of it's gone. I can only remember the main notes, not the chord structure (which is the most important part of any good song)

Just wondering if anyone else has had that happen to them.

spines,I'm liking your music dude,nice and chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllllllllled.

thank you for putting up for our ears

Originally posted by TechnoFan21
The music reminds me of Boards Of Canada? Have you heard their music before?

You just made my day.

I adore Boards of Canada.

i've done hundreds of hours of research into this.

You should Google the "solfeggio" scale....which was in fact hidden centuries ago.

Also google and youtube "cymatics" where creteain frequencies cause sand and water to form into sacred geometrical patterns and since we are around 87% water (give or take 10%) then our bodies are definately being affected by certainn frequencies.

Also you can levitate objects using certain frequencies. This has been scientifically proven already and there are youtube vids showing the successful experiments in scientific settings.

when you look for vieos on cymatics look out specifically for the sand or rice on steel plate vids....the visuals are breathtaking.......

Any note on the scale can be selected as the base note and it creates a history that you want the music to resolve to.

This creation of history has an equal in gambling. pick one number set in a million to one lottery and the odds are one million to one that it will be picked. After that number is drawn the chances of it being drawn again as the next drawing soars to one million times one million.
Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician applied this fact to roulette and became quite wealthy and created the probability branch of math. Red being hit five times in a row pays very high odds. The fact that there is a history means that the odds that the sixth draw being red is definitely not fifty-fifty.

The point is that the history of a note or a roulette wheel affects the universe and changes future history. Your brain can feel this.

This is why physicists say that observing the universe affects the results.

I have always felt that people who accept this are more likely to love music and live in a bigger universe than the fifty-fifty people.