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I am over talking about myself because I am a bit stressed. So, how can I relieve stress? No doubt sex works the best to relieve stress, but I am not married yet. I don’t want to imply the idea of necessarily being married before having sex. However, the deepest idea here is: no sex without intimacy. Anyway, I had no sex, and no contact with any female. How can I do any physical contact while I am more like a mental status? It’s only a floating wave vibrates the thin air. I am distant. I am underwater, and I am drowning to be a treasure. I am the missing piece.. Easy to figure, hard to reach. Shit, this was too many of “I am”.
The other missing piece is the connection between music and soul. Music always talks to the soul. I believed that classical musicians and composers are prophets. They were speaking/playing divine note. Otherwise, how could they stimulate the soul in the way their music does? In the end, a belief or religion, which prohibits music, is inhibiting its people from sensing an important side of beauty inside their souls. Regardless any side effect that religion claims, in benefit risk ratio, the weight of music is heavier. Islamics (as extreme Muslims) claim that listening to Quran has significant results to fasten the healing process and treating incurable diseases. On the other hand, Mozart Effect has similar role, plus increasing the IQ. My recent experience drives me to believe music works better, in particular as a stress reliever.
Music is the pleasure of the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. - Gottfried Leibniz
Regardless Mozart Effect, there is an established relationship between math and music. And as the world consists of numbers, the equation goes as the following:
Music ↔ math ↔ soul
Indeed, numbers are the elementary particles, where u can’t find any substructures below them. The last sentence is very provoking, but you can’t prove the opposite. Something inside humans drives them to appreciate symmetry, or fixed ratios, and symmetrical, beauty has to be. That is what all plastic surgery works about. To understand human pursuing the perfection, they try to make things perfectly. And vice versa, a flawlessly made music has a profound impact over the soul. Numbers are the absolute perfection, there is a whole rite to worship numbers: 1, 2, 3 and 4. And when we use ratios to compose music, this will be the master piece. Mental note: a whole new entry maybe devoted for numbers.
The golden ratio, refer to the picture please for more details, is claimed to be utilized in music. A track called: “1.618” in an album called “The Binary Universe” featured a musical version of the ratio. Nevertheless, there is not accurate or universal agreement regarding how to calculate the ratio in music. You can add, subtract, and divide numbers until you reach the desired result. Still, the implied idea of symmetry, the using of octaves which their dividing process would end up with the ratio, and the fact that some musician had tried that earlier, all contribute to the using of golden ratio in music composing. I tend to believe the presence of such ratio doesn’t add more harmony, as it could be a spontaneous result of any measurement you may take.
Last time I asked you to close your eyes, was to remember the dark memories you had in your childhood. Now, seal them and tell me what you see when you listen to the music: colors, motion, order, or other worlds. We established that music has something to do with math, order, and harmony. That is the key of its effectiveness. In the end, I used soul, metaphorically, in last few paragraph to describe the reaction when you listen to music, otherwise, it’s well known the brain gets stimulated, Mozart Effect again, maybe other senses and the heart. Before I leave, I have one question: why don’t we broadcast female Quran readers? The sequel: this is why we have many decent Christian female singers, and only Muslims belly dancers.
P.S: I am not sure if there is any study was conducted by MRI scanning for brain while listening to Mozart’s music.
This entry is rich of debatable ideas, most of which I could agree with.
On your last note, the problem with measuring the brain's activity with music under Magnetic Resonance is that music itself could affect the Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or so I reckon.
This is the power of music; it is the Goddess of all.