Hearing Color, Seeing Sound.
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Interesting article/video:
"What would happen if some of your senses overlapped? What would that experience feel like? In this special 360° episode, we show you what it's like to have synesthesia."
https://www.seeker.com/videos/hearing-color-seeing-sound-this-is-synesth...
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Garcia references synesthesia in various interviews:
JG - well, for me the thing of being able to see notes and see musical landscapes is obvious, relatively obvious part of this experience."
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You were once an art student. Do you find that background is intrinsic to the way you approach music?
JG: I can't separate myself from it. I still tend to think visually, even if I don't mean to. When I listen to a mix, I see a field.
Do you think that way as a guitarist, too?
JG: Yeah. I think of notes as objects that have perspective. They have the front part of them and the back part of them, the attack and the release. To me, it's very visual. If I had the time, I would illustrate all my solos. I could do it — I have seen them that way.
https://medium.com/@hrheingold/june-27-1990-interview-with-jerry-garcia-...
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I've read places where Zappa
Interesting jerry quotes.
I've read places where Zappa would refer to his guitars solos as sound sculptures
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Listening for the color,
Listening for the color, looking for the sound.
While listening to a live GD show in person, I often visualized it as though the members of the band were building a house.
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I would visualize riding some
I would visualize riding some kind of freaky bicycle or a weird car with all the parts moving in time with the music, like the music was running the car or the bike was generating the music! Good times!
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For me the best visual for
For me the best visual for improvisation is kind of like that old commercial where the composer is blocked and sees the birds land on the telephone wires like notes on the staff.
Add in trails when the birds fly from wire to wire and some wavy colors and we are there.
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Zappa's sculptures were made
Zappa's sculptures were made with a sledge hammer in his right hand, and the delicate passages were carved with a pick ax
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Sometimes Jerry worked with a
Sometimes Jerry worked with a teeny tiny screwdriver.
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Owsley in that interview as
Owsley in that interview as well.
"Bear: It’s all vibrations.
JG: It’s all vibration, right"
Since light and sound are part of the same electromagnetic spectrum not much of a reach to combine. Judith Cameron is an advocate for combining various art forms for connectivity. Drawing helps your playing sort of thing.
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I like this too and it
I like this too and it reminds me I am overdue for my renewal.
"Bear: That is why you need to keep taking psychedelics. Keep your mind up. You know, your body gets old but your mind can always accept that. First time I ever took acid and got really high, as I was walking around I thought “Gee. The world looked like this when I was a little kid.” I remember seeing the sparkling reality and three-dimensionality of things. Sort of like a renewal, every time you do it is a renewal, it is a renewal. It keeps your head young. It lets you keep that being able to accept the new thing just as easily as a kid would. Most people get all this stuff in their head like an old library, no room for the new volume to go on the shelves."
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>>>>>Since light and sound
>>>>>Since light and sound are part of the same electromagnetic spectrum
Not so. Light is, of course, part of the EM spectrum. Sound is not - it is caused by physical vibration of air molecules and other macroscopic objects. Energy in the EM spectrum is transmitted by photons.
It is all about the waves - no matter the medium.
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Yes, I was simplifying.
Yes, I was simplifying.
https://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=2048
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"I've read places where Zappa
"I've read places where Zappa would refer to his guitars solos as sound sculptures"
I used "sonic sculptures" to refer to Dead shows back in the day.