(Workshop Series) #2: Skill - Medium Alignment
Added 2023-08-27 18:15:01 +0000 UTC
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Simply put, sensing is receiving information that is out of our control, you hear, you see etc. Perception is how you interpret this information based on your knowledge and values and can be very subjective from one person to another.
Cheryl Jolly
2024-06-04 19:35:43 +0000 UTCNo, Beethoven is not an outlier. He wasn't completely deaf until age 44 in 1819. He died in 1827. He trained extensively in music from age 9-10 onwards. Nearly 80-90% of his works were composed while he still had some ability to hear. As he lost his hearing progressively, it influenced his works. He stopped using as many high notes and instead started employing more low notes which he could still hear. He would use various strategies to feel the vibrations of notes. One claim by a housekeeper of his, is that he would put a pencil between his teeth and rest it on the piano to feel the vibrations. With such a deep internal connection already build around the meaning of notes and the experience of notes, it is quite easy to understand how he composed without being able to hear. Most experienced (20+ years) composers could still compose music without being able to hear it after being steeped in the sensation and knowledge of the patterns, harmonies, rhythms, forms, instruments, etc for years and years. There is a memory of effect which can be leaned on. I can play "beautiful" piano without being able to hear it now. If I had no playback but someone else had headphones on with the playback from my instrument, I can still know what it will sound like now but only because I have experienced it thousands of times in the past and I can audiate in my imagination, the effects I am striking. Beethoven could do the same.
Zheanna Erose
2023-09-02 01:52:59 +0000 UTCI’m not sure how this is quite relevant but Beethoven wrote his symphony I believe while he was deaf. Would that be like an outlier case?
alvin flythe
2023-09-01 21:22:15 +0000 UTC
