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Last night was the fifth Mashed Poetics. This time, it was The White Stripes. The cover band Black Math played the album ELEPHANT in its entirety while poets spoke poetry inspired by each track before that track was played. I had the honour of being called in at the last minute to perform with the song Hypnotize. This is what I came up with. It seemed to go over well.
The entire night was nothing short of amazing. I saw tap-dancing poets, ventriloquist poets, duets, and some amazing music with our own Sasha Langford on the drums and Spillious on the mic. Fantastic night.
Anyway, here's my piece inspired the White Stripes song Hypnotize. I tried to make a piece that would lull the audience into a trance and the ending ends up becoming the count off for the song to begin. There's video somewhere but for now here's the piece.
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One. Two. Three. Four.
One. Two. Three. Four.
One. Rhythm.
Two. Music.
Three. Mesmerism.
Four. Hypnotism.
Movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements. Ring Ring.
Music. From the Greek mousike “art of the muses”. Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Pitch follows melody matched by harmony influenced by dynamics modulated by timbre and given texture. Hello?
Franz Anton Mesmer was a German physician and astrologist who invented what he called animal magnetism. He saw health as the free flow of the process of life through thousands of channels in our bodies. Illness was caused by obstacles to this flow. Overcoming these obstacles produced crises, which restored health. What are you doing tonight?
Scottish surgeon James Braid coined the term ‘neuro-hypnotism’ around 1841. Nervous sleep. Nervous from nervous system and the greek god of sleep Hypnos. It gave rise to the words hypnosis and hypnotism. I want to hypnotize you baby on this telephone.
Rhythm recalls how we walk and the heartbeat we heard in the womb. Our sympathetic urge to dance is designed to boost our energy levels in order to cope with an animal chasing us – a fight or flight response. From a less darwinist perspective, perceiving rhythm is the ability to master the otherwise invisible dimension, time. Rhythm is also rooted in courtship ritual, in the act itself. I want to hold your little hand.
The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music may vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. We call these dividing lines White Stripes. And though I knew you weren’t at home, I didn’t mind so much because I’m so alone.
In 1768, when court intrigue prevented a performance for which a twelve-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed 500 pages of music, Franz Mesmer arranged a performance of the opera in his garden. The scandal that followed Mesmer's unsuccessful attempt to treat the blindness of a female 18-year-old musician led him to leave Vienna in 1777. Mesmer would sit in front of his patient with his knees touching the patient's knees, holding the patient's thumbs in his hands, looking fixedly into the patient's eyes. Mesmer made "passes", moving his hands from the patients' shoulders down along their arms. Mesmer would often conclude his treatments by playing some music on a glass armonica. If I can be so bold.
Hypnosis is not a form of unconsciousness resembling sleep. It’s a wakeful state of focused attention. Skeptics point out the difficulty of distinguishing between hypnosis and the placebo effect, proposing that hypnosis is so heavily reliant upon the effects of suggestion and belief that it would be hard to imagine how a credible placebo control could ever be devised for a hypnotism study. In 1994, Irving Kirsch proposed a definition of hypnosis itself as a "nondeceptive mega-placebo”. I want to spin my little watch right before your eyes.
A rhythmic unit is a durational pattern which occupies a period of time equivalent to a pulse or pulses on an underlying metric level. The study of rhythm, stress, and pitch in speech describes three categories of prosodic rules which create rhythmic successions. Cumulation is associated with closure or relaxation, countercumulation with openness or tension, while additive rhythms are open-ended and repetitive. This method cannot account for syncopation and suggests the concept of transformation. Actions speak loudly like words. Just think of all those guys who would tell you lies.
Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, "There is no noise, only sound." Musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez said "The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place. There is rarely a consensus ... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be.” This world is music. We are music. And though I knew you weren’t at home, I didn’t mind so much because I’m so alone.
Mesmer wanted to know why two men who rose to high ranks in the military with similar training and looks and were alike in most ways would inspire different levels of loyalty in their men. One general’s troops would follow him into burning houses. The other would be always on the cusp of mutiny. What pulls one person to another? What mesmerizes people? I want to be your right hand man until your hand gets old.
Self administered hypnotic suggestions is called autohypnosis and may be caused by the rhythmic soothing use of language. Such as saying your name over and over again. Or hearing your voice. When all the feeling’s gone, just decided if you want to keep holding on.
Drums and language.
Music and Noise.
Animal Magnetism.
Hypnotic Suggestion.
One. Two. Three. Four.
One. Two. Three. Four.
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The entire night was nothing short of amazing. I saw tap-dancing poets, ventriloquist poets, duets, and some amazing music with our own Sasha Langford on the drums and Spillious on the mic. Fantastic night.
Anyway, here's my piece inspired the White Stripes song Hypnotize. I tried to make a piece that would lull the audience into a trance and the ending ends up becoming the count off for the song to begin. There's video somewhere but for now here's the piece.
-------------------------------------------
One. Two. Three. Four.
One. Two. Three. Four.
One. Rhythm.
Two. Music.
Three. Mesmerism.
Four. Hypnotism.
Movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements. Ring Ring.
Music. From the Greek mousike “art of the muses”. Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Pitch follows melody matched by harmony influenced by dynamics modulated by timbre and given texture. Hello?
Franz Anton Mesmer was a German physician and astrologist who invented what he called animal magnetism. He saw health as the free flow of the process of life through thousands of channels in our bodies. Illness was caused by obstacles to this flow. Overcoming these obstacles produced crises, which restored health. What are you doing tonight?
Scottish surgeon James Braid coined the term ‘neuro-hypnotism’ around 1841. Nervous sleep. Nervous from nervous system and the greek god of sleep Hypnos. It gave rise to the words hypnosis and hypnotism. I want to hypnotize you baby on this telephone.
Rhythm recalls how we walk and the heartbeat we heard in the womb. Our sympathetic urge to dance is designed to boost our energy levels in order to cope with an animal chasing us – a fight or flight response. From a less darwinist perspective, perceiving rhythm is the ability to master the otherwise invisible dimension, time. Rhythm is also rooted in courtship ritual, in the act itself. I want to hold your little hand.
The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music may vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. We call these dividing lines White Stripes. And though I knew you weren’t at home, I didn’t mind so much because I’m so alone.
In 1768, when court intrigue prevented a performance for which a twelve-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed 500 pages of music, Franz Mesmer arranged a performance of the opera in his garden. The scandal that followed Mesmer's unsuccessful attempt to treat the blindness of a female 18-year-old musician led him to leave Vienna in 1777. Mesmer would sit in front of his patient with his knees touching the patient's knees, holding the patient's thumbs in his hands, looking fixedly into the patient's eyes. Mesmer made "passes", moving his hands from the patients' shoulders down along their arms. Mesmer would often conclude his treatments by playing some music on a glass armonica. If I can be so bold.
Hypnosis is not a form of unconsciousness resembling sleep. It’s a wakeful state of focused attention. Skeptics point out the difficulty of distinguishing between hypnosis and the placebo effect, proposing that hypnosis is so heavily reliant upon the effects of suggestion and belief that it would be hard to imagine how a credible placebo control could ever be devised for a hypnotism study. In 1994, Irving Kirsch proposed a definition of hypnosis itself as a "nondeceptive mega-placebo”. I want to spin my little watch right before your eyes.
A rhythmic unit is a durational pattern which occupies a period of time equivalent to a pulse or pulses on an underlying metric level. The study of rhythm, stress, and pitch in speech describes three categories of prosodic rules which create rhythmic successions. Cumulation is associated with closure or relaxation, countercumulation with openness or tension, while additive rhythms are open-ended and repetitive. This method cannot account for syncopation and suggests the concept of transformation. Actions speak loudly like words. Just think of all those guys who would tell you lies.
Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, "There is no noise, only sound." Musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez said "The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place. There is rarely a consensus ... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be.” This world is music. We are music. And though I knew you weren’t at home, I didn’t mind so much because I’m so alone.
Mesmer wanted to know why two men who rose to high ranks in the military with similar training and looks and were alike in most ways would inspire different levels of loyalty in their men. One general’s troops would follow him into burning houses. The other would be always on the cusp of mutiny. What pulls one person to another? What mesmerizes people? I want to be your right hand man until your hand gets old.
Self administered hypnotic suggestions is called autohypnosis and may be caused by the rhythmic soothing use of language. Such as saying your name over and over again. Or hearing your voice. When all the feeling’s gone, just decided if you want to keep holding on.
Drums and language.
Music and Noise.
Animal Magnetism.
Hypnotic Suggestion.
One. Two. Three. Four.
One. Two. Three. Four.
tags