Klarinet Archive - Posting 000691.txt from 2000/11

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Opinions and metaphors
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 05:54:36 -0500

<><> Tony Pay wrote:
To include my reply to Bill in this, I'd say that to go further in
specifying what about those high harmonics constitutes 'good' sound is
what's impossible. *That* isn't so easily done.

Why would a person spend money in order to see a graph of his or
her sound on a screen?

One reason is that there must be (IMO) a 'biofeedback' aspect to
all of this. I have in mind how people can be taught to regulate their
heartbeat or brainwaves --- which normally they don't perceive directly
--- by watching a graph of it or listening to a buzzer or seeing a red
light blink or whatever. Some aspects of clarinet playing fall into
this same category. Our diaphragm muscle is one example that we've
discussed recently.

I've spoken many times about my belief that the 'purest and highest
of intellectual thoughts' develop in our minds by means of primitive (as
in 'low level' or 'early in the process') crosstalk between our sensory
structures. Hence we 'see' the answer to a problem, thoughts 'make
sense' to us if all of our senses say the same thing about it, we
'hunger' to understand something, and so forth.
I agree that all the wiggles and waggles in a frequency spectrum
are much to complex to analyze and to say (for example) "When the ratio
of this peak to that peak is the cube root of pi, then...." But the
information is there nonetheless, and I'm stuck with my belief that some
nonverbal part of my mind would benefit from watching it in real time as
I played.

Of course, before the days of affordable 700 mhz desk top computers
and A/D converters from Radio Shack and shareware, such things were not
possible. But perhaps they are now. I'm 'dying' to try it.

Cheers,
Bill

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