On Wed, August 25, 2010 5:16 am, James Warden wrote: > >> Can subconscious intelligence enhancing music actually be >> made or are we >> limited to the primitive senses of sexual reproduction and >> aggression for >> mass market appeal? >> > > Patrick, I do not understand this sentence of yours. > > Sexual reproduction is not a primitive sense, neither is "aggression", and > the "goal" of sexual reprod. and aggressive behavior is not mass market > appeal as you seem to suggest here. > > When all this is said, mass markets are a given of our industrial > societies. So of course, any marketable activity can lead to de facto > industry standards or trends. Some ppl are easily appealed by those, some > are not. But I don't see why we should label our basic biology or > behaviors as primitive and link it to mass appeal. Could you elaborate ? > Well IMO all modern club music is designed to make people feel either aggressive or sexual or both. It seems that there are tow probably reasons for this. 1: The majority want to feel this way and respond best to music that provides this stimulous 2: The people making the music have found it is the best way to get a lot of people addicted to the sound and therefore spend more money at environments where that is provided. There is a third option that I entertain which is that the music and media industry is callously abusing this aspect of the human subconscious in order to keep people stupid, aggressive and or sexually distracted. Given that the majority of popular club music uses this compositional technique I wonder if it is simply a foregone conclusion that we humans are destined to be controlled in this way by the creators of the popular music or if we music creators are actually able to transcend this period of production values and make music with mass market appeal that influences the subconscious to be more intelligent. Like I said my goals are purely subversive in this regard. If we can make people feel sexual or aggressive with our music which I think has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt as entirely possible with current technology then can we not make people become more intelligent, tolerant, open minded, compassionate, altruistic or in fact have any other in the entire spectrum of emotional response/s too? Depression is another emotion which has been a target for a long period but I don't hear it being preyed upon as much in the past decade. It seems to me that the clear majority of currently popular music is attempting to influence peoples sexual or aggressive response mechanisms. There are some attempts in popular music at getting inside peoples heads that I have been considering recently but IMO they all fall short of the goal due to the vagary of the lyrics and the distraction of the composition. Whereas the popular music being released these days is almost exclusively hitting its target of sex/aggression or both. I wonder if we are able to turn the technique on itself... -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
