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In a 1778 letter to his father Leopold, Mozart wrote: I must finish writing this letter now, because I have to write at breakneck speed—everything is already composed—but not written yet. Mozart was said to have heard an “inner musical score” before he had time to write down the music. His wife later wrote: Mozart wrote everything with a facility and rapidity. While writing, he never came to the clavier. His imagination presented the entire work when it came to him, clearly and vividly. Free and independent of all concern, his spirit could soar in daring flight to the highest regions of art. |
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Einstein described Mozart’s work as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
Mozart’s music is so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.” Einstein wrestled with his own thinking process, often using music as a device to simulate the architecture of the universe. To him, music follows the blueprints of the cosmos intuitively so that when he got stuck with a difficult mathematics problem, he would grab his violin or plunk on his piano to deconstruct his mental mappings. |
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In this, art and science weaved through Einstein’s Grand Theory of Relativity, and it was in Mozart’s intuitive capacities to orchestrate noise into harmony where he found the greatest inspiration.
Thinking fast and slow
Mozart might be thought of as a fast-thinker, whose much slower body is unable to catch up with the mind’s much faster perceptual capacities. At the time of his death, about 150 musical works lay unfinished.
Daniel Kahneman expounds on our two intuitive systems:
System 1 is fast, automatic, effortless, associative and often emotionally-charged. System 2 is slower, sequential, deliberate and usually rule-governed.
System 1 is our mode of thinking borne out of Sound and Orality. Our instinctual thinking, emerged from Brain.Breath.Blood. As our hearts race, so are our mind-brains affected by a large field of information that races through our sensory registers.
From the Age of the Image and Literacy, we developed a slower intuition, a System 2 designed to adjust the judgmental and biased blindness sometimes associated with System 1. Humans learned the process of slowing down our inherent fastness, so that the mind also learned to decelerate our fast and unconscious Sympathetic Nervous System responses.
Daniel Kahneman expounds on our two intuitive systems:
System 1 is fast, automatic, effortless, associative and often emotionally-charged. System 2 is slower, sequential, deliberate and usually rule-governed.
System 1 is our mode of thinking borne out of Sound and Orality. Our instinctual thinking, emerged from Brain.Breath.Blood. As our hearts race, so are our mind-brains affected by a large field of information that races through our sensory registers.
From the Age of the Image and Literacy, we developed a slower intuition, a System 2 designed to adjust the judgmental and biased blindness sometimes associated with System 1. Humans learned the process of slowing down our inherent fastness, so that the mind also learned to decelerate our fast and unconscious Sympathetic Nervous System responses.
the ear favors no particular ‘point of view.’ We are enveloped by sound. It forms a seamless web around us. We can‘t shut out sound automatically. We simply are not equipped with earlids. Where a visual space is an organized continuum of a uniformed connected kind, the ear world is a world of simultaneous relationship. Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition.
Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Message
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A very long time ago, a large group of indigenous organic farmers of Mindanao were introduced to the innerdance process, where the process we understand now is still very much present in the embodied language of Oral Cultures. This is a short documentation from that time. |
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