The Sound Mind

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• 13 Jan, '22
  Jonas Koblin

  Sound and Brain:
  But, basically, sound is the movement of air; and we have sound waves and we have brain waves; and the sound waves are air and the brain waves are electricity. And electricity is the currency of the nervous system. So, this transformation needs to happen. And, so much of what happens, not only it enters the ear, but it's really the brain that makes a lot of sense of the sound.
  
  But, now, if we just think about: so what makes up sound? Again, visually nobody has difficulty. I've got this visual object and it's got a shape, a size, a weight, a color, texture. It has ingredients.
  
  Well, sound, if you even pay attention to sound at all, sound also is rich with ingredients. It has pitch, timbre, harmonics, phase, how loud it is. There are many, many--how fast. There's so many timing, rhythmic cues. And, the brain, our sonic brain, our sound-mind, our hearing brain needs to make sense of all of these ingredients.
  
  And, one of the metaphors that I use in the book is a mixing