Sounds

[Moonmagic]

Sound is utterly fascinating, think about how musical patterns and combinations can literally change your emotions, all those frequencies working together and painting a picture, you don't just hear it, you feel it! When you hear and feel those low sub frequencies in bass heavy music, it can be like an adrenaline release, in nature a low frequency heavy sound would usually be associated with danger etc

My Dog is obsessed with trying to lick my ears and often wakes me up, speed licking my face and laying on my chest. It's annoying but I secretly like it

Back in the 90s when I lived in St. Paul Minnesota, I took the children to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

There was a guy there that was interacting with the children, teaching them about art and sound. This was years ago, before over half the population became germaphobes. All the children were sitting on the floor. He told them he was going to play a sound, and he wanted them to tell him what color it is. I was a bit puzzled about what he was going for, but I stood there like the other adults, puzzled and amused. Until he started playing.

Without a bit of hesitation, the children all called out in unison the same color. I remember as if it was yesterday, they all yelled, "Blue". All the adults looked at each other, now a bit more puzzled. He played another sound and they all yelled, "Black". He played green, red, white, and yellow, and each time the children called out at the same time the same color word. It was amazing and I never forgot it.

Music paints a picture, and paints it in living color, for children, and for the child inside us.

That's Beautiful! I wish I could have witnessed that.

Even on the technical side it's true too! When I make Music I have a frequency spectrum open because we need to see the sound as we create and engineer it, each instrument or sound has its place in that spectrum and you have to fill it up just like a painter does a canvas, making sure some colours don't clash, and that others are more dominant. The range for a Human is from 20hz to about 20,000hz, individuals vary slightly, so in Music that is the canvas we work with, but those lower frequencies you feel more than you actually hear.  

Makes you wonder about those inaudible frequencies, how much we are missing out on.