> > this kind of finding seems consistent with various other sensory deprivation > experiment results and parallels a lot of the visual illusion research, which > suggests that toneshifting is most likely tied in with perceptual processing.
Yes it is... The less actual info you are dealt, the more info your mind creates on its own... > vision tends to get a lot more attention in this kind of area, but i'm sure > there's a substantive body of academic writing out there on this sort of thing > if you really feel like digging for it. There's some work out there. Most deals with how the mind reacts to info and doesn't really try to use this research in any broad way, such as impact and application, etc... What I am working on, and indeed what the basis of my toneshift theory, is how these effects in perception play in todays *social* market; what is the social impact and application of such music and effects. I suggest that a big draw to things like techno, emotive drugs, and raves, is partly due to the lack of imagination going on in the modern world. Instead of playing with sticks and rocks, cops and robbers, or being generally intellectual and imaginative, the general populous is simply being totally entertained, and being told what to see and feel (video games, high info movies for instance) - the classic lazy brain dead couch potato. And I suggest that this state of constaint and total entertainment and "info-spooning" is un-natural for the mind and emotional state (that comment is not to be considered a ludite remark BTW). Since techno and other lyricless dance music is very limited in its definition and message, it becomes very appealing because it allows the average mind to imagine and project (toneshift) in a world where there is little too imagine, the people seem to be getting over loaded with interpretation and input. Same thing with raves and its culture. I personally feel that imagination and creativity is a nessessity to life (at least a happy life), and since less and less is left to the imagination in the world, things like techno and raves become more and more appealling on vast scales and will continue to do so... toneshifting serves as a creative imaginitive outlet to the average person in an automated world.... > > personally, i don't see how styles of music that generate these kind of auditory > effects hold any more artistic merit than others, but that's just me. > I hope I never came across like that!! I find merit in everything, even good old britney spears... > i think this is characteristic of richie's recent djing, though. his mixmag cd > from 1995 is very narrative and contains a lot more textural variety than the > mills/user tracks he canes for the first 2/3rds of DE9 (although the latter mix > has been growing on me recently.) here here!!! His mixmag was very defined. It is only in the past two years say where he has seemingly pulled all his definition away, except for fleeting moments, like the classic nitzer ebb drop.... BTW, I have been developing a web-site to be opened this spring to deal with these theories and thoughts, along with setting up a open forum dedicated to these discussions... darw_n "create, demonstrate, toneshift..." search for "djdarwin" on napster www.sphereproductions.com www.mannequinodd.com www.mp3.com/darw_n
