tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post8414038251872026306..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Scientists explain how classical music changes the worldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-81424955822711932812014-01-11T10:12:29.765+00:002014-01-11T10:12:29.765+00:00Brutus, no you are not being misunderstood at all....Brutus, no you are not being misunderstood at all.<br /><br />In your first comment you used a pejorative, as in "the two theatres of operation are so wholly discrete that the hope of manipulating things at the quantum level, which would then manifest at the level of ordinary objects in human experience, well, that's just more twaddle".<br /><br />You have now redacted that statement to "Applicability still lies far over the horizon", which is somewhat different.<br /><br /><i>OAOP</i> is not an open forum where visitors can say what they like. It is a personal website which often expresses views that are contrary to popular thinking. The fact that, unlike some music blogs, comments are allowed shows that constructive discussion is welcome. But words such as "twaddle" are not part of constructive discussion. Which is why they will not be tolerated in the future.<br /><br />End of discussion. Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-54861866992914521302014-01-10T22:36:21.934+00:002014-01-10T22:36:21.934+00:00Am I being misunderstood? I want to read discussio...Am I being misunderstood? I <i>want</i> to read discussions of style, taste, and beauty, but I don't want to read about how science diverts music to some other agenda, or even how science purports to explain why I like something.<br /><br />I admit I have a low tolerance for quantum anything, even if it's progessing (just barely) from purely theoretical stuff to having a real explanatory function. Applicability still lies far over the horizon. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-24975335760378632262014-01-10T21:41:01.332+00:002014-01-10T21:41:01.332+00:00Isn't is sad that informed debate online and a...Isn't is sad that informed debate online and any aspiration to style, taste and beauty eventually fall victim to pejoratives such as "twaddle". <br /><br />My tolerance level for informed debate and constructive disagreement on this my personal website, remains high. But my tolerance level for these kind of pejoratives is now zero.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-67304873257708307672014-01-10T18:25:20.816+00:002014-01-10T18:25:20.816+00:00I saw the twaddle remark and thought something sim...I saw the twaddle remark and thought something similar, but it doesn't exactly surprise me that some scientific support is found at the level of quantum entanglement. Problem is, the two theatres of operation are so wholly discrete that the hope of manipulating things at the quantum level, which would then manifest at the level of ordinary objects in human experience, well, that's just more twaddle. Besides, what I like about classical music is not its usefulness in curing cancer or creating baby geniuses. So as fascinating as your hypothesis might be, I'll skip over it (like I do the subject of music business) in favor of discussions of style and taste and beauty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-55837853791892371722014-01-10T16:18:44.366+00:002014-01-10T16:18:44.366+00:00I just put the link to this post over on the one m...I just put the link to this post over on the one mentioned above. <br /><br />My intuition tells me that what you're pointing to is very much there and will come up trumps as the empirical knowledge accumulates.Lyle Sanford, RMThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-13995828605296419852014-01-09T12:04:15.140+00:002014-01-09T12:04:15.140+00:00I found the following quote in an excellent articl...I found the following quote in an excellent article by David Fine that Kyle Gann posted on his blog. The full article can be found here: <br /><br />http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/the-entertainer/<br /><br /> It might be relevant to your theme, which I don't find to be twaddle at all but very interesting:<br /><br />"I want to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start immediately to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I’d like to play a certain song and he’ll be cured. When he’d be broke, I’d bring out a different song, and immediately he’d get all the money he needed. But what these pieces are, and what is the road to attain the knowledge of them, that I don’t know. The true powers of music are still unknown. To be able to control them must be, I believe, the goal of every music."<br /><br />John Coltrane<br /><br />Thanks for your courageous explorations.<br /><br />Jerome<br />Jerome Langguthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11232771961596244247noreply@blogger.com