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Although I don't normally advocate drug use, this is one of the instances where I think a little "perception-alteration" can be a good thing for a lot of people. When I used to experiment with acid (five or six hundred years ago it seems) I perceived musical sounds as actual physical objects. Not just colors but as three-dimensional tube-like shapes coming out of the speakers toward me. I distinctly remember watching different timbres blend together to make not only different colors but different shapes, too. Now today, all these years later, I can still partially picture sounds that way when I want/need to and it has made a huge difference in my career as a jazz band director and music professor. I firmly believe that my talent and ability to manipulate sounds comes from those experiences I had with altered perception.
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Living is easy with eyes closed.
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