From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Jul 04 1998 - 06:39:01 MDT
Entropyfoe@aol.com writes:
> Extropian music is music that Extropians like ! Glass, Fripp and
> Eno, and Riley, along with other music, has a psychological aspect,
> the music is engineereed for a psychological reaction. The use of
> music for creative purposes is Extropian. It is Extropian to want a
> concentration of the mind, bringing power like Sufi or other sacred
> music. The use or drone, repitition, and ostinato have mind
> altering qualities if you 'Listen' to them.
The interesting question is if it is possible to design music more
specifically to create the right psychological reaction. Right now it
is an art/craft with a lot of rather disorganized knowledge. Maybe
advances in biomusicology (yes, the subject exists!) could help make
it clearer and more powerful.
It might turn out that we need to tune the music styles to our own
personalities and representations to get maximal effect, any ideas on
how to optimize this? This also fits in with adapting other mental
tools to ourselves; we need a better way to 'install' them.
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