Music Orientation
Not a secret to anyone who knows me, but I have a music thing. As I mentioned back in my post about Twilight Covening, I figured out there that I am strongly oriented on audio input. Whenever possible, I like to have sound of my own choosing going on in the back ground. Even when I sleep, I have a fan going, white noise to control the sound input that I'm receiving.
Part of the deal is that I have very good hearing. This, in turn, leads to me picking up on a lot of irrelevant feedback. I am always picking up on conversations and random sounds that are far off from me, and they sort of get in my brain, distracting me. My own local music helps to block out that extra feedback.
Part of it is also that I have lots of audio hallucinations. If it is particularly quiet, my ears fill up with all sorts of noises. This ranges all over from things that are somewhat like the throb of machines running in another room, to high pitched rings, to suggestions of voices, to subtle motion sounds - like as if someone is moving about very quietly, disrupting the background sounds with the noises of their shifting body, even though no one is there.
Additionally, sound impacts my mood very readily. Whatever the sounds are - be in the rumble of the T, birds chirping, the low murmur of conversation in the office, or the giggling of friends. It all goes straight in and fiddles with my mood control dials. With the right music, I can do a degree of mood control - mitigating the environmental impact of whatever random sounds might come after me. In a surprise to no one, control: it's some kind of a thing for me.
As far as my music tastes go - they are all over the place. The clearest view into my tastes is to put on my primary Pandora station. I'm on Pandora under the name Majes Arsadfero; if you go there, check out Helpful Devil Radio. It is like looking directly into my brain. When you are viewing my station list, some of those are gaming stations, ones that I put together for ambiance control when I'm running my table top games. This has worked out very effectively - in the olde days, I used to have to keep switching CDs and had a limited collection from which to play. Now, once a station is trained, it practically runs itself, finding all kinds of good background stuff that it would have taken me years to put together on my own. It is full of the awesome.
An alternative way to see how my music tastes go - I practically always fill out the Music box on my posts.
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Part of the deal is that I have very good hearing. This, in turn, leads to me picking up on a lot of irrelevant feedback. I am always picking up on conversations and random sounds that are far off from me, and they sort of get in my brain, distracting me. My own local music helps to block out that extra feedback.
Part of it is also that I have lots of audio hallucinations. If it is particularly quiet, my ears fill up with all sorts of noises. This ranges all over from things that are somewhat like the throb of machines running in another room, to high pitched rings, to suggestions of voices, to subtle motion sounds - like as if someone is moving about very quietly, disrupting the background sounds with the noises of their shifting body, even though no one is there.
Additionally, sound impacts my mood very readily. Whatever the sounds are - be in the rumble of the T, birds chirping, the low murmur of conversation in the office, or the giggling of friends. It all goes straight in and fiddles with my mood control dials. With the right music, I can do a degree of mood control - mitigating the environmental impact of whatever random sounds might come after me. In a surprise to no one, control: it's some kind of a thing for me.
As far as my music tastes go - they are all over the place. The clearest view into my tastes is to put on my primary Pandora station. I'm on Pandora under the name Majes Arsadfero; if you go there, check out Helpful Devil Radio. It is like looking directly into my brain. When you are viewing my station list, some of those are gaming stations, ones that I put together for ambiance control when I'm running my table top games. This has worked out very effectively - in the olde days, I used to have to keep switching CDs and had a limited collection from which to play. Now, once a station is trained, it practically runs itself, finding all kinds of good background stuff that it would have taken me years to put together on my own. It is full of the awesome.
An alternative way to see how my music tastes go - I practically always fill out the Music box on my posts.
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