Best music to visualize
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Spyglass
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- Posted: 09/11/2020 00:09
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Everyone of us must have formed mental pictures from a song at one point. When I'm focusing on nothing else, I do that pretty easily. Gas albums tend to make me visualize being out in the woods, for example.
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- Posted: 09/11/2020 00:27
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Pretty sure you're getting that from the covers/titles
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Spyglass
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- Posted: 09/11/2020 00:33
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| saltfish wrote: | | Pretty sure you're getting that from the covers/titles |
Ok, how's this? I listened to Irrlicht by Klaus Schulze and I visualized evil spirits coming down to Earth for an attack. It was slow-building like the Rite of Spring and Night on Bald Mountain segments of Fantasia rolled into one.
Does this satisfy you?
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- Posted: 09/11/2020 00:47
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So you connected it to a similar music with which you already had visuals associated
Any "pure" visualization? Is that even possible?
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Spyglass
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- Posted: 09/11/2020 01:41
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| saltfish wrote: | So you connected it to a similar music with which you already had visuals associated
Any "pure" visualization? Is that even possible? |
You completely missed it there.
A: No, I didn't. Please read the original post again before replying.
B: Yes, pure visualization is possible. It's even a part of some forms of meditation.
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- Posted: 09/11/2020 01:54
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OK. No need to get bitchy. Pretty sure there's a reissue of Irrlicht with an ominous, spacey cover too. Just seems like you're thinking about album covers
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Spyglass
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- Posted: 09/11/2020 02:11
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| saltfish wrote: | | OK. No need to get bitchy. Pretty sure there's a reissue of Irrlicht with an ominous, spacey cover too. Just seems like you're thinking about album covers |
Ambient electronica always reminds me of space. And even if the cover comment was true, you seem to forget that album covers oftentimes represent the essence of the music within.
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Skinny
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- Posted: 09/11/2020 05:11
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When I was younger, I often used to see this when I was listening to music:
I never see it anymore, though.
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AfterHours
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- Posted: 09/11/2020 05:25
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| saltfish wrote: | | OK. No need to get bitchy. Pretty sure there's a reissue of Irrlicht with an ominous, spacey cover too. Just seems like you're thinking about album covers |
Maybe artists often (not always) choose a cover that has some correlation to the music they made?
I mean, Irrlicht clearly is ominous, spacey music...
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- Posted: 09/11/2020 12:23
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Of course album covers are chosen to reflect the music, all I'm saying is that it seems to bias the listeners experience in visualizing music. And I have a hunch that those images are often chosen with hefty extramusical bias as well (maybe in Irrlicht's case, being released by kosmichemusik label Ohr at a time when space films were soundtracked with a certain kind of ghostly-wailing organ or synthesizer -- why not choose an image of a church? Or a burnt out amplifier?). Everyone's everything is 100% awesome, but I was hoping for more original visualization like synaesthesia or lethal's example or something else. Visualizing Mick Jaggar's jeaned ass while listening to Wild Horses is expected, also, horses, and hospital beds. Visualizing harmonica sounds as a kind of western flavor isn't further off (thank you Ennio). But how do you visualize non-lyrical music for which you have no context? That's interesting
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