Dear Students and site visitors,
We welcome your lively comments to the Postings that will appear over the next months. To date, this Blogsite has entertained many valuable discussions and heartfelt responses to the themes and historical overviews we have posted over the past several years. We want to encourage you to join in the tradition of sharing ideas and creative reactions on this Blog and welcome your thoughts wholeheartedly to our growing Aesthetic's manuscript!
Bill Havlicek
8 comments:
Glad to be a part of this class! Will we be able to contribute posts with articles and/or videos as students?
Thank you!
Congratulations on having the first post. Yes, I want to encourage every student in our Aesthetics Class to make at least-- one post per student-- during this semester.
Of course you are welcome to make more than one Posting. By all means --please scan all of the pages-- on this blog and interact with the films and other materials. Leave a comment as well on these places too if you wish.
Please review the 2000 year history of our Aesthetic subject matter--it is fascinating from Plato to the Present day!
Bill Havlicek PhD.
Your Playlist Can Change Your Life: 10 Ways Your Favorite Music Can Revolutionize Your Health, Memory, Organization, Alertness and More, by Galina Mindlin www.amazon.com/Your-Playlist-Change-Life-Revolutionize/dp/1402260245
“The first music encoded deep within your memory are the earliest vibrations that made you – the rhythms and tempos of your first cells.... as your cells began to develop with the comforting rhythms of your mother's heartbeat and the whooshing low frequency sounds vibrating through her placenta and your umbilical cord, these first musical scores began entraining (two or more rhythms synchronizing into one) in your brain and orchestrating the essence of music for your entire being. So from your first spark of life, your brain was already establishing the relationship for how music affects you today...
Newborns can almost immediately show some memory of sounds they encountered in the womb... Before any of us is capable of speaking words, we can recognize changes in notes and rhythmic patterns... Throughout all this development, lyrical and comforting “motherese,” the singsong way in which parents speak to their children, plays a significant role in instilling feelings of calm, safety, and love...
By only their 14th week, children can distinguish their mother's footsteps from anyone else's, and discriminate between their mother's voice and a stranger's.... No wonder...at the beach on any given day, we can see a man or woman lying in the sand... listening to the whoosh of waves and the easy hush of wind, smiling like a baby....”
www.nicabm.com/nicabmblog/what-healthy-brains-sound-like-how-brain-music-therapy-is-helping-first-responders/
Think about the article above and vibrations made in our mother's womb and how the recent visit to the beach is related to this soothing wave pattern.
Then think of specific tunes that have an unusual capacity to calm you and see if the tempo of that music is similar to that of a heartbeat and wave rhythm.
Lets work this semester at making connections with our 5 senses and our earliest childhood experiences and how they continue to affect and effect us.
Hello Bill and Fellow Class Mates. I too am glad to be a part of the class. I had a few things to share on aesthetics.
The power of music. This is a scene from the film "The Shawshank Redemption":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azWVPWGUE1M
The universal power of music. This a clip from the World Science Festival in which Bobby McFerrin is demonstrating the power of music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk
I hope you all enjoy.
Dear Amy,
Your musical contributions are powerful and demonstrate how directly our human system absorbs the content of music as communication emitted both to hearing but felt as pulsating waves of sound. We feel and hear it and it enters our consciousness in ways that transcend thought while not evading deep understanding.
There is a passage in the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament where the writer says of Nature: Deep calls to deep in the roar of the waterfalls. . . Night speaks to day but without any voice. . .The idea here is that we absorb forms of knowledge non-cognitively through our five-senses. Music is an example of this.
Thanks for the film segments!
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?NR=1&v=DEluA6LFw6k
This above link opens to a remarkable piece of behind the scenes film-making which is aesthetic experience in the most literal sense.
We receive the filmed and digitally crafted illusion as real because the visual data is based on the knowledge of the eye-mind. The mind accepts this as real because the content has real texture, location, shade and shadow, height and depth, extension and perspective etc. All of the features of real world and thus the illusion is perceptually convincing.
Proof of the power of perception and how art builds from sense to comprehension to transcendence and awe inspiring power.
http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white
This above link opens to a remarkable visual representation of the known universe from microcosm to macrocosm. Another aesthetically significant piece of awe-inspiring representation.
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