Music and Life II

Not so long ago I spoke about life cycles, about music as a force an energy capable of affecting things and persons. All of us have been affected by music that gets into us, and stirs the very fabric of our being, people in very ancient times saw sound as a power, the sacred power of the speech together with the locomotive power, the power of manual dexterity, the power of reproduction and the power of elimination, these five were considered the powers of Action or Karmendriyas from Karma (Action) and Indriya (Organ).

Basically these 5 powers allow us to realize things, those are the 5 powers every human being posses to express him/herself, the power of speech and music are one and the same, it's the power to express feelings and ideas using sound as the carrier, so powerful, rich and complex are the languages that they allow us to build civilizations upon them, science and computing are based on the language of mathematics, music too all these are languages, and they can be spoken / played or they can be stored when we want to store something it has to be "encoded" or written, because of this reason I consider the ability to write and read as part of the power of speech, at least a development of it.

Don't you think it's curious that letter A is given so much importance in all the world languages, why is this? have you ever thought what's the sound of "A" take a moment to analyze it, do a short a and then a long aa, those 2 are the simplest and most basic sounds they can be done with our bucal chords, in the world of electronic music, the simplest sound that can be generated with a synthetizer is a sine wave

The sinewave is the simplest sound wave form that can be generated, it is the basis of all the sounds that can be generated either naturally or synthetically, all the sounds that exist in our world are combinations of sine waves with diferent frequencies and envelopes, because of this most basic analogue synths offer this waveform as an option for sound creation, sounds in a synthetizer are generated by the "oscilator" this is the part of the synth that generates the waveforms, our bucal chords can be considered a "sound synthetizer" because they are capable of generating all kinds of sounds, from the three spectrums, we can chant and sing generating harmonic spectrum sounds, we can make rythmic noises without tone, effectively generating inharmonic spectrum sounds, and we can make noise sounds too, like when we ask someone to be quiet "shhhhhhhhhh" we can also make them to express surprise "tsssssssssss" these sounds are continuous spectrum sounds. Such is the richness of our bucal chords!! it isn't a mere chance that ancient ones considered speech a sacred power, more on this on the next part of the article