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Subject: Re: Therapeutic use of synths

From: "wjhall11" <wjhall@...>
Date: 2008-09-12

And don't I recall hearing that Mr. Tesla would, on occasion, use LFOs
to create sub-sonic waves that would make guests - Um - soil
themselves? What a card, that Nicola.

You know - I had a college grad-school friend who was doing research
on the effect of sound on plants. She observed all kinds of
interesting stuff - non of which I recall except that some of her
experiments stunted their growth and others got really unusually big,
healthy plants. And so, I guess I have nothing real to offer - just
anecdotes and vague memory that suggests there's probably something to it.

That being said -

Certainly Ayurveda contains ideas about the effect of sound on just
about everything. And isn't there something called Marma Therapy as
part of that tradition?

And the field of Bioacoustics seems to include a splinter group that
is studying the effect of sound on health.

<shrug>

FWIW <G>

Bill







--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Marc BAREILLE <m.bareille@...> wrote:
>
> Hi ,
>
> I am setting up an application with my modular synth, a little bit
> 'unusual', but therapeutic somewhere ;)
>
> I will use a modulated VCO in the 20KHz up to 90KHz ( or close)
> running all night long by random periods with a set of piezzo tweeters
> used in PA systems to force one of my neighbourg's dog to bark all
> night long ... I hope i will get the silence all day long this way.
> Actually it is the opposite -without ultra-sounds at all - and it is me
> who become crazy because this dog never stop !!!
>
> Precision : i have told the master about his barking dog but she do
not
> care at all, and said me 'f... o...' , so she will have a good
surprise
> very soon :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc B.
>
>
>
>
> David Flores a écrit :
> > I'm just interested in any experience amongst the folks in this
> > listserv with
> > the therapeutic applications of synthesizers. Anything as
invasive as
> > hooking
> > up electrodes to synths to hypnotherapy using synthesizers.
> > ???
> > Does anyone use synthesizers for strictly non-musical
> > meditative/therapeutic
> > endeavors?
> >
>