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- From: miket@hermes.tcs.com (Michael Turner nmscore Assoc.)
- Subject: Dream music (was Re: Kava Kava)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.003452.21715@tcsi.com>
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- Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
- References: <1993Jan20.112032.1@wizard.colorado.edu> <cygVXB4w165w@anarky.tch.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:34:52 GMT
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- In article <cygVXB4w165w@anarky.tch.org> nightsng@anarky.tch.org (Nightsong) writes:
- >> In other ways too, herbs have much to contribute to the dreamer,
- >
- >It seems that people keep commenting on herbs, and other such things, as
- >doing certain things for dreaming. I have actually found music quite
- >satisfactory. Usually, my dreams look, sound, and feel better (*AND* it
- >is easier to realize I am dreaming and take advantage of it) if I am
- >listening to Enya's music.
- >
- >-Nightsong
-
- I find her stuff very dreamlike -- the kinds of melodies that seem to
- occur to me in dreams, in the few times that has happened. I wonder
- just what this "dreaminess" is, anyway? Some studies have measured the
- "dreaminess" of story-lines -- people who are awakened from REM supposedly
- make up "dreamier" stories than people who are woken at other times.
- For images and narrative, it's not hard to think of means of comparison,
- but music is another thing again. Is it something in the sound itself?
- In the images the music conjures up? Some combination?
-
- I can see how music could help suggest spaces via acoustic effects alone,
- and these how these suggestions could be turned into dream-images. I can
- also see how electronics might be necessary to evoke something like the
- sounds you hear only in your head in dreams -- a kind of anti-acoustic
- feeling. Perhaps Enya helps induce lucidity by suggestively "lucidifying"
- your dream environment with externally-supplied material that, while vivid,
- is nevertheless quite dreamlike itself.
-
- Maybe "dreaminess" is at the heart of the *appeal* of Enya's music, and
- others. I've often that that much of culture wells up out of people's
- conscious and unconscious resonance with dreams. Some critics have
- pointed out MTV as an example of virtual dream animation.
-
- William Gibson had a good story in Burning Chrome that took as a premise
- that electronically-induced dreams were going to be a major entertainment
- medium. I don't recall a mention of any soundtrack for these, though.
- ---
- Michael Turner
- miket@tcs.com
-