Friday, September 21, 2018

The Eruption of Feeling Better, the Spinning Melody of Light: Dolores O'Riordan's Journey on the Creative Process and the Eternal Present of Sacred Acoustics (Eben Alexander)

In this interview segment - Dolores O'Riordan describes her creative process - how a melody will just flash into her in a moment of inspiration. And then the song just tumbles out of her ("almost falling down the stairs") - the inspiration overflowing. One of my music teachers recommended I read the book "The Creative Process"  -  a book from the 1950s I think.

Yeah 1952 -
This unique anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists, and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them. ... Google Books
So the main message of this book is how dreams and "flashes" (full text archive link) - as what we call today a "download" of information occurs - as the mystic creative process.
Suddenly I kind of saw something and this melody came into my head.... It was like a soul reflection thing. I just had this trigger that life is passing very quickly. And the Journey [song link] came into my head, the melody. So I went downstairs and I started recording the music. The fact that you don't realize that time is passing until you look up in the mirror and see something in your face, you can see that you are getting older but you are still in that same place in a way, back there washing your hands. How quickly the time goes, .... and you're always searching for something but maybe THIS is the moment. Actually it is. THIS moment is the moment.



MSO=mammalian

One central tenet of Jeffress' model was coincidence detection between temporally precise inputs from both ears — neurons that would fire preferentially if their binaural inputs coincided exactly in time.Such coincidence detection has since been demonstrated in specialised auditory brainstem neurons of the avian (and crocodilian) nucleus laminaris and the mammalian medial superior olive 5, 6, which modulate their discharge rate as a function of interaural time difference. The nucleus laminaris and the medial superior olive, like much of the auditory system, are organised tonotopically. Thus, coincidence detection is performed many times in parallel, by neurons tuned to different frequencies. Inherently, higher-frequency neurons achieve better temporal resolution. This is because the temporal information is conveyed by each ear via precise phase locking (Figure 1):
 In other words, those neurons handle frequency signals that are much faster than spikes! But how exactly do they achieve that?














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