tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35429900.post5730641313008691727..comments2023-04-16T13:53:57.295+00:00Comments on improvising guitar: listening: feeling the string tensionthe improvising guitaristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07517613086214719180noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35429900.post-20627699527279233442007-04-04T15:12:00.000+00:002007-04-04T15:12:00.000+00:00sjz, Bas,Thanks for the comments, and apologies fo...sjz, Bas,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comments, and apologies for not replying sooner.<BR/><BR/>sjz, no I haven’t been reading Reich (other than the snippets from your (mis)readings). Anything to recommend in particular as begin pertinent to the issue of corporeal listening?<BR/>Yes, it could all end up too easily as ‘new age jibba-jabba’, but the question is, can we theorize this—orgone or no orgone—in a way that doesn’t end up that way—that is useful, or compatible, with performance?<BR/><BR/>Bas, yes, thanks for bringing up mirror neurons and the citations. A friend of mine did an very interesting presentation based on mirror neurons and corporeal listening. It strikes me, however, that there’s a higher-level enculturated listening going on here, and the question is, can we talk about this without recourse to the Neo-Cartesian mind-body split?<BR/>I also want to avoid the specter of the pre-cultured body—a ‘rosetta stone’ to use Susan McClary’s metaphor—and I want to acknowledge the possibility of misunderstandings.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again for the comments.<BR/><BR/>S, tigthe improvising guitaristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07517613086214719180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35429900.post-85936829957317514282007-04-02T12:05:00.000+00:002007-04-02T12:05:00.000+00:00Interesting! "Knowing" things like string tension ...Interesting! "Knowing" things like string tension might be an interpretation of the input delivered to you by <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_cells" REL="nofollow"> mirror neurons </A>. Some other interesting reads: <BR/><A HREF="http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/2/308" REL="nofollow"> neuroscience abstract</A><BR/><A HREF="http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/1/3/235" REL="nofollow"> neuroscience article</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35429900.post-34057944382912791992007-03-31T15:31:00.000+00:002007-03-31T15:31:00.000+00:00Have you been reading Wilhelm Reich?Do we hear wit...Have you been reading Wilhelm Reich?<BR/><BR/>Do we hear with our whole body, or is that just some new age jibba-jabba?<BR/><BR/>Very interesting thread my friend!Stanley Jason Zappahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06526308723808269327noreply@blogger.com