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The Sound of Music,The hum of static,The smell of reason

 
 
Kobol Strom
09:53 / 09.08.01
I could hear the sound of music (not the film) through the sound of rushing water as it swept past the boat.What is this psychological phenomena called?.I could shape the perceptions of ambigous notes into pleasing patterns and new music is generated.Watching t.v static,I can see patterns shifting,chaos spirals,and once these are brought under conscoius control I I can alter their movements and speed.Both of these experiences seem to involve, percieving underlying patterns and then willing this pattern to conform with intentions,generating new patterns.But more importantly,generating a new STYLE.CAn these experiences be used to form a new conceptual model for chaos magic?
Reality is not merely changed as in ‘pan-dimensional universal causality wiz-bang’,but the overall style of an element can be altered,moved,using whatever technique-to shift the path and the pattern.This is for realtime improvisational magick but could be applied wherever.

A tv generating static is a 2d flat plane of random blips,but once the patterns begin to form through perceptual attention,the forms can be brought to a near standstill,to create the shape of a flat plane from formlessness,where duplicates are perceived.So from a 2d image of chaos,we can perceive a shifting,2d form and make it conform to will,but never bring it to a complete stop.Try it!Turn on your t.v. ,de-tune it and watch the static.We can use our will to alter the STYLE of the pattern,like we can with percieved ambigous musical notes from the white noise of ocean spray.(Takes extremely long puff on Maryland Double Choc with %33 extra free.)Has anyone else done this?If I've gone lone nutter,you'd all let me know,wouldn't you?
 
 
fluid_state
09:53 / 09.08.01
>I could hear the sound of music (not the film) through the sound of rushing water as it swept past the boat.<

perfectly natural for an lone nutter like yourself to think so, kobol. I hear music emanating from the automotive manufacturing plant up the street, although no one else in the building has ever described it as anything but noise. music of the spheres, and everything therein; whether you percieve it as such or not is a matter of paradigm. and you're not a lone nutter until you kill a president.

Thanks for the idea about the TV static. I'll give it a try and let you know what I see.
 
 
Yagg
09:53 / 09.08.01
Try this one: tune your radio to static and go to bed with headphones on. A purely sonic version of the same concept. Very interesting.

Of course, I would always be blasted out of bed in the morning because I'd pick up delivery guys on their two-way radios bitching about their jobs. That'll jolt you out of your dream trip in a hurry.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
09:53 / 09.08.01
quote:Originally posted by solid_state:
Thanks for the idea about the TV static. I'll give it a try and let you know what I see.

It sounds a lot to me like the surrealists' Critical Paranoia, especially this part: quote:Exercise 2: Focused concentration until the bathroom floor rises to your occasion.

Either you see the face or you do not. The matter is not one of debate. There are no preconceptions, no paranoia to influence what you perceive. The careful aquisition of critical paranoia requires continued practice until it becomes a part of your subconscious way of thinking.


Find a bathroom with tile floors and subdued fluorescent lighting.
The bathroom tiles one half inch by on half inch are preferable.
The tiles with the speckles are preferable.
Find an empty stall and sit on the toilet.
Sit so you are comfortable.
Stare at the floor in front of you through the bottom edge of the closed stall door.
Stare until columns of tiles oscillate rapily back and forth, chaotically at first, but more rhythmically in passing.
Move your eyes towards your feet to perceive rows of tiles moving against the columns.
Observe the speckled patters for insights as to the flux of images now ready to be accepeted upon your retina.

Thoughts?
 
 
grant
14:37 / 09.08.01
Definitely demonstrates how the human mind creates order out of chaos by interpreting randomness.

I had a girlfriend in college who would zone out to static and make pictures.
She was also way into magick stuff (and a faithful Psychic TV devotee).
 
 
Kobol Strom
16:13 / 09.08.01
The process of putting yourself in a frame of mind for 'Critical Paranoia',through concentration,has cross-connections to Susan Blackmores efforts in 'The Meme Machine'.I don't think Dali was a paranoid Shizophrenic because he could pull it off,but the fact that he could work it into his paintings -if he was properly in the zone- is remarkable. Apparently Uri Geller studied with Dali when he was younger,but I'm not sure about him.(Mad theory:He could be possessed by the spirit of Dali who lends him power -Bent spoons?Weird pottery?)
The minor mind gymnastics needed to be able to see patterns is worth the exercise in itself,if anyones interested in trance states,they'll see parallels with memes,zen,kundalini,cloudbusting and michael jackson.
From the link to Surrealism,(thanks,by the way),-I hate it when pseudo-psychologists make up terms like 'frontal-lobe epilepsy', especially when there is still no direct evidence of localisation of brain function yet.Its sad,that when Dali and the surrealists create a new model to understand perceptions and the universe,all we can do is try to examine their brain patterns,instead of,god forbid,think about the possible existence of alternate paradigms?One step forward ,two steps back.This experience taps into different parts of the brain,which is why the pidgeon holing of conventional understanding has failed to make the link to its use as a model for chaos magick potential.I see it as having the potential to act like a mind-gym for psychick Kung Fu.

[ 09-08-2001: Message edited by: kobol strom ]
 
 
Topper
01:43 / 10.08.01
Re: Critical Paranoia exercise

That's interesting because it's something I do anyway. Maybe its remnants of the hallucinogens I've taken, but if I stare at a wall and let my eyes go slightly out of focus, it breathes. Natural wood grain seems to swim and textured ceilings work well too. It's low key and has become second nature to me so I haven't given it much thought til now.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
08:27 / 10.08.01
quote:Originally posted by Topper:
Maybe its remnants of the hallucinogens I've taken

Hmm. Not sure about that - I've not taken fuckloads of drugs (and nothing stronger than E, anyway) and I do the same thing on occasion. Certainly, it helps if I'm tired, or not quite thinking - I think the defocussing thing is pretty natural, though maybe more common to some than others. It can be a little disturbing, also - sometimes if I'm absent-mindedly looking out a stationary train window, it'll feel like it's moving because my visual field will start to stretch a little...but will "snap" back to normalcy when I'm jerked back to full consciousness of my surroundings.
 
 
Mazarine
08:27 / 10.08.01
I've not taken any drugs outside of alcohol and it happens to me. Particularly in my music appreciation class in high school. The teacher would shut out the lights, and the room was covered with glow in the dark stars, and the little bastards would not hold still.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
10:25 / 10.08.01
Do you think this is akin to synaesthesia, at all?
 
 
Kobol Strom
12:50 / 10.08.01
Yes,because both processes are about how we deal with information.There is an extremely cool page you all must read,if you don't know about 'Michel Serres''s work.(I've only read it today)

Serres link

What do you think?
 
  
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