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- From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: rec.music.compose
- Subject: Re: Hearing Mental Music
- Message-ID: <721911057.4280@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 10:50:59 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.225120.20144@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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- : my mind, but as soon as I try to pay attention to it, it stops. Do any
- : of you have this problem? Do you know of any way to get better access
- : to your internal music?
- :
- : Nancy Lebovitz
- : nancy@genie.slhs.udel.edu
-
- Occasionally I can hear quite graphically detailed music with my mind's ear.
- It almost sounds like I am actually hearing it rather than the more
- internalised sound of something purely in the imagination. It is almost like
- an aural hallucination only partially under my control. Since I learnt to
- play an instrument it now happens less.
-
- It takes considerable concentration to take music from the mind's ear and
- actually exploit it fully but given sufficient concentration I can create
- multi-part harmonies, although it is exhausting and not as intense as the
- hallucination type above. Unfortunately like Nancy Lebovitz I find it
- difficult to control purely spontaneous music which is a pity as I am sure
- it would be fulfilling to get some of it written down (perhaps I should learn
- to read music).
-
- Aaron Turner aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
-