I CREATE, WHEN I RESONATE© the original song by Rozalina Gutman, the transformative metaphorical public awareness message, to serve as the Theme Song for the Int'l Campaign, dedicated to the subject of "Advocacy for Music Education through Brain/Music Research"
Read about the author's inspiration for the lyrics & their references to brain/music research publications: (printable version is available as a part (page 3) of PRESS RELEASE )
My song “I Create, When I Resonate”© came to the surprisingly quick fruition right upon my return from my Int’l Symposium, part of the 29th World Conference of ISME (www.ISME.org) in Beijing, August, 2010, and was inspired by the events at this magnificent happening.[1] While preparing for this symposium’s presentation, I had to read quite a bit on the subject and I had a great pleasure of personally interacting with neuroscientists and researchers from all over the World. All that, coupled with my passionate desire to share this valuable, yet undeservingly lesser-known information, inspired the manifestation of my song.
That is why, my song “I Create, When I Resonate”© rightfully falls into the category of “Knowledge Songs”, according to the Classification of Prof. Dan Levitin, neuroscientist and best-selling author of “The World in 6 Songs”.[2]
It is created to inspire the interest to learn more about the mentioned in the song references and allusions (“Music… Why do you spark the best in our mind?”). In fact, virtually each line of the song is linked to the sources of vast information and endless inspiration that are worth discovering.
Here are some detailed references of metaphors to the research-related publications:
(Due to the saturation with novel information, my song is intended to be produced in a form of multi-media, incl. visual representations.)
My song “I Create, When I Resonate”© is packed with vivid metaphors about the vital role of music in the process of evolution of human race (“…While learning to speak, Neanderthals sang…”), and it calls for further exploration of this most promising and intriguing subject (as described by Prof. Steven Mithen, archeologist and neuroscientist, and the author of “The Singing Neanderthals”). My song’s reference to love (“…to help you remember that trust is a must…”) is also the metaphor, related to the notion about musical expression serving as vital evolutionary adaptation (meaning that its origins are innately motivated by the survival instinct).
My song “I Create, When I Resonate”© starts with the allegorical reference to the immense cognitive value of music activities, including such advanced mental functions that enable creative thinking skills as abstraction (“…Imagining flight into starry night.”), among other most advanced cognitive skills that otherwise are quite challenging (if possible..?) to address in the curricula while teaching the young age students (“…Musical language is mindful delight…”). These metaphors were inspired by the notion of “musical predictions”, perfectly illustrated in “Sweet Anticipation” by Prof. David Huron and in “Proust Was a Neuroscientist” by Jonah Lehrer. References to the balanced mind are resonant to the powerful research study by Dr. Schlaug about measurable growth of child’s brain (its corpus callosum) resulting from continuous music studies (“Music… You balance my mind, you let me transcend...”)[3].
The power of music is already known to be great. But, its full capacity as a powerful cognitive tool is yet to be realized by many more people. There is no need to explain the powerful effects of a lullaby on an anxious child (“Music… First lullaby is always with us…”). No famous block-buster movie can be successful without its soundtrack, no commercial can magnetize our attention without music… Undoubtly, music helps successfully teaching us at our very early age such vital basics like alphabet that otherwise would be impossible to memorize (“Music… Alphabet song made you star in your class…”). And, yet – there are other significant benefits of music that can be harvested through its application on more sophisticated levels.
Renowned American composer Aaron Copland explained in his public lectures (“Music and Imagination”) the multi-dimensional nature of music that is accessible not only on emotional level. In fact, music is able to reveal much deeper realms of valuable intellectual rewards (“…Thank you for sharing priceless insight: Musical language is priceless delight…”) - to those who are capable and trained to interpret music metaphors, due to their familiarity to the complex and intricate details of musical language, while serving as the challenging, yet immediately rewarding mental exercise that is virtually incomparable to any other activity And as a tool for keeping the mind active during all ages, music happens to be simply indispensible and instantly motivating self-growth tool for all generations. ( “You must remember this…” Scientific American (Sept, 2010), as well as variety of interesting data on the positive effects of music therapy effects on Parkinson's disease patients)
Through the words such as “Music… To dissonant thoughts you bring peace, you bring light…”, my song reminds about the holistic properties of music listening and hands-on music engagement (as revealed by the best-selling author and neurologist Oliver Sacks in his popular book “Musicophilia” and his video “Musical Minds”)[4] . Today’s researchers are beginning to learn that the incredible transformative power of music on our mind to reduce physical and mental suffering can be easily compared to the pain-killer and beta-blocker-type medications, and is due to its ability to change the state of neurotransmitters in our body (incl. the release of “feel-good” dopamine).
Neuroscientists inform us that when compared to the processing of our other senses in our brain, the sound processing shows quite unique characteristics: it uses unique path and involves the actual reproductive resonance response within our body. Further exploration on this and other issues may soon explain the great transformative power that music has on our state of mind. (“...Awakening soul’s deep-hidden might…”)
[Update in light of upcoming feature of my discoveries at 35th World Conference of ISME, including the evidence for discovered textbook-changing aspect of the unconscious mind - Bach Sensory Deactivation Effect, reflected through compilation of recordings of unearthed by me and obscured for centuries new meaning of his Fugue-Parody:]
The line “…Polyphony makes my thinking expand...” reflects my lifelong fascination with this one of the most complex music styles that had ever been created in music. And to this date, when it comes to polyphomic texture, Johann Sebastian Bach still remains as the unsurpassed master of its complexity. And his music, that combines simultaneous emotional/intellectual engagement reflected otherwise elusive sociosomatics of sensory shutdown and linked to it inter-hemispheric imbalance and related blind spots.
This capacity of complex music is especially invaluable for the use for transformative repatterning of mentwl blocks that helps to reflect complexities of current emotional life during extremely challenging times of living through COUNTDOWN'2045 - only a little over two decades left to the onset of projected global infertility, provides additional evidence for THE ESSENTIAL role of music for human psyche. Indeed, music-centered Sensory Reawakening is of essential value, since omnipresent sensory oblivion and SENSORY COMPLICITY, based of deactivation of sensory pain alarms to chemical hazards during past several generations had permitted creation of environmental hell that leads to mulatitude of increasing environmenta illnesse, including rapid plummeting of sperm counts, leading to human extinction, the trend that is projected by researchers to impact grandchildren of today's adults, unless drastic changes would be made through mobilization of all society resources through NO BUSINESS AS USUAL priorities for assuring BIRTHRIGHT for the next generations.
The name of my song “I Create, When I Resonate”© is the poetic translation of the famous ancient chant “Avra K’Davra” from Hebrew/Aramaic [5] , and is chosen for several reasons. Of course, the metaphor of well-known “magic” meaning of this saying is symbolic of the great and almost “magical” transformative power of music. By all means, it reflects the above “resonance” quality of our brain function to music, thanks to the Music Instinct that involves release of restorative neurotransmitters through proactive engagement with music. And, this symbolic expression also awakens the link to the lasting traditions of the past that come alive through the personal experience that music engagement often generously presents to the next generations - the form of higher awareness that distinguishes humans as highly evolved species (“…Evoke ageless feeling through sound-boomerang: Fill music score with the warmth of your voice, Help next generations evolve and rejoice!..”).
Music's expression of VIBRATIONAL UNIVERSE that was defined in Einstein's String Theory, had manifested in the recently reserging interest for using sound resonance for healing (sadly, left with no development after Tesla's production of tangible body of applications of his discoveries in the realm of using magnetic resonance for healing, including helping Jack London, who left accounts of this still untapped approach for dealing health problems with no painful side effects of non-bio identical drugs that dominate medical industry... Speedy integration of already discovered RESONANCE-based healing strategies is the much needed urgent paradigm change that is most critical for our society. And music needs to be used in applied forms for helping to recalibrate human brain and our society at large in accordance with INTERCONNECTEDNESS of our world that is based on this primordial physical paradigm of vibration, being the unifying measure of all matter in our universe,at the level of subatomic particles...
Music and musicians should be given due prominence and priority in the society that may no longer continue to be misaligned with vibrational foundation of our reality, leading us to self-demise, while no awareness of the urgency for this is made among the public...
[1] My symposium’s aim was to present comparative overview of the existing music education systems by several participants, who are the esteemed scholars from various countries. The next step was to find out what contributed to the success stories that can be somehow replicated in other countries. Then, finally we focused on the benefits of being engaged in sustainable arts/music curriculum according to the available brain/music research data, which serves as the effective advocacy tool for critical importance of music/arts education for all in our time. The abstracts/details of this event are available at http://charismafoundation.org/intlsymposiumonicame.html
[2] Prof. Daniel Levitin is also the author of “This is Your Brain on Music”, as well as co-producer (with personal involvement of well-known musician Bobby McFerrin) of PBS educational video “Music Instinct”.
[3] The evidence from MRI research studies shows that the fibers in the corpus callosum, which connect the left- and right-brain hemispheres, are as much as 15% wider in those who began playing music before the age of 8. (Schlaug, et. al. 1995b)
[4] PLEASE, NOTE THAT WE COLLECT REFERENCES ABOUT THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT from people who interacted with this song (such as “brought tears”, “reversed the attitude towards steady healing”, etc.) to be assessed later by the researchers.
[5] This world-famous (although carrying the altered from the original meaning) saying was originated by the practitioners of Kaballah, the complex teaching known for many centuries that influenced many known today religious streams of thought. This expression was recited during the special ceremonies that served to rise above the physical reality to reach higher spiritual realms of conscience.
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