Listen with your skin.


So today it was a little too warm upstairs where my main system is.
I took off my shirt. That’s better. Hey…wait a minute does the music sound a tiny bit different? Better even?

Well it seems the answer could be YES.

There’s been scientific testing of the skin’s contribution to hearing. Not sure if it applies to listening to music, but it’s worth us subjectively testing it.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/skin-hearing-airflow-puff-sound-perception/

I can see it now. We’ll be able to recognize each other at the next
big audio fair. We’ll be the guys wearing a bathing suit and flip flops.

 

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The largest organ in your body is your skin and it happens to cover your ears all the way down to the eardrums. I can see how reverting to using your organs as originally intended can be a very positive attribute with better results than how you've been listening fully clothed. 

It's way too easy and tempting to pooh-pooh such a thought without thinking it through. It's the nature of our times. Think of how much better you feel walking barefoot on some cool patch of grass, stopping to scrunch your toes into it. Same thing. Nothing new age or hippy-dippy about it.

All the best,
Nonoise

i ask myself this question:

How the way we think about our hearing and the way we think about "what is a sound" affect our way to interpret music and speech...

i just stumble on many books about sounds and hearing ...

I take also  an appointed meeting with the ophtalmologist in august , because i cannot read as easily as before on my reading tablet or on the computer ... i think i need new glass..😊

 

I discussed here with an objectivist for a week and the number of articles i read for this on my illuminated regular  computer  kill my eyesight...😊 The objectivist revenge so to speak...

i like to go somewhere on bike each day , stop and read a book in nature...

One of the big book i stumble to, among others,  is not easy to read on a small reading apparatus..

"Reason and Resonance A History of Modern Aurality" by Veit Erlmann

 

«Better to be blind than deaf, we can see with our ears not the reverse»-- Batman diary 🦇

I just read the OP article in the scientific American.... Short and sweet...

I will resume it with a few words:

 

They said "dont speak to the wind" in the Bible , but science now say "dont speak into the wind" ... 😊

"They said "dont speak to the wind" in the Bible..."

                                           Where?