Why yes, I *am* having trouble sleeping... thoughts on listening to music
So, I made an interesting (to me) realization last night: I have little to no aural depth perception. I knew I tended to hear recorded or amplified music as a wall of sound, having trouble listening to the line of a single instrument. Even when I'm sitting amongst instruments, it's sometimes hard to hear just one.
Last night, for a brief moment, I was able to listen to a recording and track the guitar part. It was if the music sprang into 3-D. There was space between the melodic lines, a front and a back and I could move between the strands of melody.
I remembered hearing the NPR interview with the woman who spent most of her life without depth perception because of weak eye muscles. She finally developed depth perception by means of doing exercises to force her eyes to work in tandem.
I think the various musical exercises I've been doing have been forcing my ears to work in tandem.
Also, tonight whilst working on HBPhD.com that I could hear the difference in how the melody felt depending on the particular combination/order of notes I used, figuring out (maybe) what worked and what didn't.
Also tonight I was able to pick up a half-known tune (the wrong one, as it turns out) more quickly than expected. It would seem my musical education is making progress.
Kinda cool.
Last night, for a brief moment, I was able to listen to a recording and track the guitar part. It was if the music sprang into 3-D. There was space between the melodic lines, a front and a back and I could move between the strands of melody.
I remembered hearing the NPR interview with the woman who spent most of her life without depth perception because of weak eye muscles. She finally developed depth perception by means of doing exercises to force her eyes to work in tandem.
I think the various musical exercises I've been doing have been forcing my ears to work in tandem.
Also, tonight whilst working on HBPhD.com that I could hear the difference in how the melody felt depending on the particular combination/order of notes I used, figuring out (maybe) what worked and what didn't.
Also tonight I was able to pick up a half-known tune (the wrong one, as it turns out) more quickly than expected. It would seem my musical education is making progress.
Kinda cool.