I have spent my time during this pandemic doing three things. One, writing a second book. Two, organizing the music for a new study of music in ICUs which just got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts:
https://lombardi.georgetown.edu/lombardi-stories/georgetown-lombardi-arts-and-humanities-program-receives-national-endowment-for-the-arts-grant/
Three, letting my hair grow long again, like I had it back in the hippie days of the early seventies.

Only here at the good 'ol RMCG would I include number three.

Andrew

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On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 10:47:29 PM UTC-5, mattf...@gmail.com wrote:

Andrew Schulman wrote:

I have spent my time during this pandemic doing three things. One,
writing a second book. Two, organizing the music for a new study of music in ICUs which just got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts: https://lombardi.georgetown.edu/lombardi-stories/georgetown-lombardi-arts-and-humanities-program-receives-national-endowment-for-the-arts-grant/
Three, letting my hair grow long again, like I had it back in the hippie days of the early seventies.

Only here at the good 'ol RMCG would I include number three.

Andrew

Ever since then, I’ve thought that the rhythmic and sound-quality aspects of music are primary to our attraction to music.

Sound that serves this lower self are rich in harmonics.
A full bass response in the music is needed.

The rhythm needs to be pulsating in a danceable way.
--
Matt

There is a lot to learn when you do medical music. We are hoping this study will be the first of a series.

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Andrew Schulman <andrew@abacaproductions.com> wrote:

I have spent my time during this pandemic doing three things. One,
writing a second book. Two, organizing the music for a new study of music
in ICUs which just got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts: https://lombardi.georgetown.edu/lombardi-stories/georgetown-lombardi-arts-and-humanities-program-receives-national-endowment-for-the-arts-grant/
Three, letting my hair grow long again, like I had it back in the hippie
days of the early seventies.

Only here at the good 'ol RMCG would I include number three.

Andrew

On the second thing, I have this story. Many years ago I was at a small new-year’s-eve party. There were 10-12 people there, and I had known
everyone for years. I drank way too much whiskey. The more I drank, the
more I danced. After I had my last drink, I knew that if I stopped dancing,
the room would soon start spinning. So, to everyone’s amusement, I kept dancing. The music playing was mostly classic rock or stuff with a strong rhythm. Then someone changed the music to my own solo-guitar recording of
an abstract expressionist piece (which is on a complication CD). This was
the last thing I wanted to hear. I tried dancing over it anyway, but that wasn’t good enough. I needed that pulsating, danceable rhythm, the bass,
and the saturated sound that electric instruments give so well.

Ever since then, I’ve thought that the rhythmic and sound-quality aspects
of music are primary to our attraction to music. Harmony, melody and composition are secondary. Perhaps the ethereal harmonies of Debussy and
the bare, delicate sounds of the classical guitar appeal mostly to our
higher selves, and not very much to our lower selves. We love them because we’ve come to recognize the needs of our higher selves, and also because we recognize that these needs aren’t satisfied with most music that’s available. But, in an inebriated state, well, I for one, felt the need for music that wholly serves the primitive, lower self. I wonder if the needs,
that can be met with music, of certain categories of critical care patients
are similar.

Sound that serves this lower self are rich in harmonics. The saturated, distortion from an electric guitar, with bass and drums fill the need very well. I can imagine a string quartet, especially with a percussionist would fulfill the need, also. On the opposite end are classical guitar, harp, and flute.

A full bass response in the music is needed.

The rhythm needs to be pulsating in a danceable way.

By the term, higher self, I was thinking of a theory that philosopher,
Joseph Margolis, puts forward saying our thoughts are in two major camps,
viz., enlanguaged thought and non-languaged thoughts. Non-human animals
only have the latter, as did our pre-languaged ancestors. Although it may
be that the division of music, meeting the higher vs. lower self, is a
division wholly within what Margolis called enlanguaged thought. I’d like
to see studies of animals’ responses to the different types of music that I describe.

--
Matt

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On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 8:29:14 PM UTC-5, and...@abacaproductions.com wrote:

I have spent my time during this pandemic doing three things. One, writing a second book. Two, organizing the music for a new study of music in ICUs which just got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts:
https://lombardi.georgetown.edu/lombardi-stories/georgetown-lombardi-arts-and-humanities-program-receives-national-endowment-for-the-arts-grant/
Three, letting my hair grow long again, like I had it back in the hippie days of the early seventies.

Only here at the good 'ol RMCG would I include number three.

Andrew

Geez, Andrew, if I'da known you were visiting Georgetown I would have asked you to come to the Medstar Washington Hospital Center in early Jan where I was recovering from triple bypass surgery. I could have used some tunes in the ICU!.But I managed to
recover without - doing fine now. But my playing has suffered - I'm not having much luck in that department. Getting old sucks.

Dave

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On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 12:43:10 PM UTC-5, Curmudgeon wrote:

On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 8:29:14 PM UTC-5,:

I have spent my time during this pandemic doing three things. One, writing a second book. Two, organizing the music for a new study of music in ICUs which just got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts:
https://lombardi.georgetown.edu/lombardi-stories/georgetown-lombardi-arts-and-humanities-program-receives-national-endowment-for-the-arts-grant/
Three, letting my hair grow long again, like I had it back in the hippie days of the early seventies.

Only here at the good 'ol RMCG would I include number three.

Andrew

Geez, Andrew, if I'da known you were visiting Georgetown I would have asked you to come to the Medstar Washington Hospital Center in early Jan where I was recovering from triple bypass surgery. I could have used some tunes in the ICU!.But I managed to

recover without - doing fine now. But my playing has suffered - I'm not having much luck in that department. Getting old sucks.

Dave

Hey Dave, As it's my 69th birthday today I can say I agree with you, getting old sucks. Would have been quite happy to play for you if I could have been there. Glad to hear you are doing fine now. All best, Andrew

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On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 10:05:49 PM UTC-5, and...@abacaproductions.com wrote:

On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 12:43:10 PM UTC-5, Curmudgeon wrote:

On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 8:29:14 PM UTC-5,:

I have spent my time during this pandemic doing three things. One, writing a second book. Two, organizing the music for a new study of music in ICUs which just got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts:
https://lombardi.georgetown.edu/lombardi-stories/georgetown-lombardi-arts-and-humanities-program-receives-national-endowment-for-the-arts-grant/
Three, letting my hair grow long again, like I had it back in the hippie days of the early seventies.

Only here at the good 'ol RMCG would I include number three.

Andrew

Geez, Andrew, if I'da known you were visiting Georgetown I would have asked you to come to the Medstar Washington Hospital Center in early Jan where I was recovering from triple bypass surgery. I could have used some tunes in the ICU!.But I managed

to recover without - doing fine now. But my playing has suffered - I'm not having much luck in that department. Getting old sucks.

Dave

Hey Dave, As it's my 69th birthday today I can say I agree with you, getting old sucks. Would have been quite happy to play for you if I could have been there. Glad to hear you are doing fine now. All best, Andrew

Thanks, Andrew - Happy Birthday to you! You're still going strong and accomplishing a lot, which is a lot more than I can say. I'm now closer to 78 than 77 and am managing to remain mostly vertical.
Dave

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On 2/24/2021 8:05 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote:

On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 12:43:10 PM UTC-5, Curmudgeon wrote:

On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 8:29:14 PM UTC-5,:

I have spent my time during this pandemic doing three things. One, writing a second book. Two, organizing the music for a new study of music in ICUs which just got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts:
https://lombardi.georgetown.edu/lombardi-stories/georgetown-lombardi-arts-and-humanities-program-receives-national-endowment-for-the-arts-grant/
Three, letting my hair grow long again, like I had it back in the hippie days of the early seventies.

Only here at the good 'ol RMCG would I include number three.

Andrew

Geez, Andrew, if I'da known you were visiting Georgetown I would have asked you to come to the Medstar Washington Hospital Center in early Jan where I was recovering from triple bypass surgery. I could have used some tunes in the ICU!.But I managed to

recover without - doing fine now. But my playing has suffered - I'm not having much luck in that department. Getting old sucks.

Dave

Hey Dave, As it's my 69th birthday today I can say I agree with you, getting old sucks.

As you both probably know, it's better than the alternative.

Anyway, 69 isn't old; you're a youngster. I'm 83.



--
Ken

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On 2/24/2021 10:05 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote:

On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 12:43:10 PM UTC-5, Curmudgeon wrote:

On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 8:29:14 PM UTC-5,:

I have spent my time during this pandemic doing three things. One, writing a second book. Two, organizing the music for a new study of music in ICUs which just got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts:
https://lombardi.georgetown.edu/lombardi-stories/georgetown-lombardi-arts-and-humanities-program-receives-national-endowment-for-the-arts-grant/
Three, letting my hair grow long again, like I had it back in the hippie days of the early seventies.

Only here at the good 'ol RMCG would I include number three.

Andrew

Geez, Andrew, if I'da known you were visiting Georgetown I would have asked you to come to the Medstar Washington Hospital Center in early Jan where I was recovering from triple bypass surgery. I could have used some tunes in the ICU!.But I managed to

recover without - doing fine now. But my playing has suffered - I'm not having much luck in that department. Getting old sucks.

Dave

Hey Dave, As it's my 69th birthday today I can say I agree with you, getting old sucks. Would have been quite happy to play for you if I could have been there. Glad to hear you are doing fine now. All best, Andrew

Happy Birthday, old man!

Steve

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El 25/2/21 a las 17:10, Ken Blake escribió:

Anyway, 69 isn't old; you're a youngster. I'm 83.

I think I might do a usenet venn diagram.

--
Paul.

https://paulc.es/elpatio

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On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 1:15:52 PM UTC-5, Steven Bornfeld wrote:

Hey Dave, As it's my 69th birthday today I can say I agree with you, getting old sucks. Would have been quite happy to play for you if I could have been there. Glad to hear you are doing fine now. All best, Andrew

Happy Birthday, old man!

Steve

Why thank you, young man!

Andrew

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On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 1:22:22 PM UTC-5, Paul Carmichael wrote:

El 25/2/21 a las 17:10, Ken Blake escribió:

Anyway, 69 isn't old; you're a youngster. I'm 83.

I think I might do a usenet venn diagram.

--
Paul.

https://paulc.es/elpatio

Had to look up Venn diagram again, because at my age, I don't remember stuff too good anymore. Except for Bach fugues.

Andrew

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El 27/2/21 a las 4:48, Andrew Schulman escribió:

On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 1:22:22 PM UTC-5, Paul Carmichael wrote:

El 25/2/21 a las 17:10, Ken Blake escribió:

Anyway, 69 isn't old; you're a youngster. I'm 83.

I think I might do a usenet venn diagram.

Had to look up Venn diagram again, because at my age, I don't remember stuff too good anymore. Except for Bach fugues.

I'm subscribed to very few groups, and I see familiar names over several of them. I wonder
if it's pure coincidence.


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Paul.

https://paulc.es/elpatio

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