What the Heck is Music?

THE ELEMENTS OF MUSIC  (WITH RESPECT TO PHYSICS, PSYCHOLOGY AND SPIRIT) By Jerome Jarvis “Melody is the Mother, Rhythm is the Father” (ancient Sanskrit mahavaakya)   Where does Music come from? Indeed, what is it? How can a series of compression waves moving through the atmosphere and into an auditory canal designed to receive, encode […]

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Closing Comments

No, I’m not shutting down the website; but I am completely overwhelmed by the responses I’ve received in the “comments” section here. And I DO mean Overwhelmed! Over the past 2 years my site has been slowly gathering users, and your comments have been most welcome (if sometimes incomprehensible). So I truly appreciate the largely […]

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Attention Please

Have you ever noticed that you can control the focus of your vision? it probably happens without you being consciously aware; but the lens in your eye deforms to adjust the near or far focus, from fine-grained detail to the wide vista of the whole visual field. But watch – it is your choice whether […]

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Between the Ears

I’ve had hearing trouble since 1990. Up until then my sense of hearing was quite acute, having been accustomed to listening deeply to all sorts of music on all types of systems. So it was a shock one afternoon to suddenly hear a high-pitched whistling noise in my left ear. More shocking still was the […]

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