| This work (Érès, first edition 1991- second edition
1994) is about physiology and of psycho-acoustic. It regards the known
bonds between the sound in its various attributes (intensity, pitch,
timbre, localization...) and the human being considered as body and
psychic organization as well. It explores more than aesthetic pleasures
of music, especially, multiple components of the sound in their effects,
which can lead, not only to a therapeutic or occupational use of the
sound, but also to the exploration of desired effects on the most intimate
emotions. As Yehudi Menuhin tells to us "the Sound penetrates our
body directly. What the ear can achieve inside our brain, inside our
lives, nothing other cannot do it." It adds "the use of the
high frequencies opens all a new world to us. The sonic therapy has
a specific effect which seems to have wide implications and astonishing
results. I believe that that constitutes an opening of greater effectiveness
for the music and health ". The low frequencies and the intermediate
ones have also specific effects; the differential stimulation of the
two ears, the nature of the rates/rhythms, etc... are also specific
: lot of observations at the disposal of the musician, the creator of
jingles, the actor, the dancer, the scenario writer, etc... The stimulation
and the exercise of the auditive functions by means of suitable techniques
can change the future of an individual who becomes suddenly interested
in reading and studies, who improves his/her relationships, undertakes
actions which he/she neglected before! The development or, could one
say, the over-education of its system of listening are for the musician
or singer as justified as the practice of the training routine for the
professional sportsman: the jogging is not any more one luxury but a
daily requirement. |
