Sound theory

Not a sound theory, but a theory about sound.

Walking home My daughter and I were discussing things like magnetism, gravity, infa red, and sounds only dogs can hear and somehow we ended up with a very good theory about controling animals with sounds, like a remote control.

Yesterday, I heard some quote to the effect of if we only knew things we could see then we did not know much. I am just furthering that notion with sounds. Throughout life people have hinted at things that cannot be heard effecting us. My favorite is in a song on the Soundtrack to Bram Stoker's Dracula by Annie Lennox. It says, "for it is the drum of drums. It is the sound of sounds that knows now how it sounds." Music effects more than minds through words. But, as music therapists know it effects our moods. In a preface to LDS,hymnals it says that music increases the spirituality of a meeting, and when the early utah pioneers tried to celebrate Christmas they THOUGHT they did the best they could, but were chastised for not singing more. Even my father claimed that digital music will never overtake virtuosos when it comes to performance, because they cannot  duplicate the sounds that cannit be heard which have a great effect on the listener.