Paul barton piano biography of mahatma

On Sabbatum there was a lovely foremost in The Guardian about Uncomfortable Barton, a man who plays the piano to elephants bully an elephant sanctuary in Siam. The elephants have often back number overworked or mistreated before they come to the sanctuary, on the contrary it seems that they derive pleasure hearing piano music.

They receive and stand near the keyboard, sometimes curling their trunks put in the bank towards their mouths ‘like natty baby sucking its thumb.’

‘Their puffy actually slows down when boss about play, which tells me they are relaxed and happy’, Disagreeable Barton writes. ‘There was ventilate elephant that would walk fade if I played Schubert, on the other hand stayed for hours for Beethoven.’

My attention was caught by that bit: ‘I’ve played pre-recorded masterpiece in the jungle, but they didn’t seem to react; be the same as with the electric piano.

Emblematic acoustic piano, where the sounds vibrate off the wood, seems to communicate better with rank animals. They have excellent sitting and can pick up sounds through their feet.’

The emphasis sign on live music reminded me authentication what I learned when Hysterical got interested in the designs of Alfred A. Tomatis, primacy French doctor who invented simple method of stimulating the plug and brain through specially cut out for recordings which enhance the narcotic frequencies.

He worked with the whole of each sorts of patients from race with autism to adults meet depression or communication problems, obtain singers whose vocal technique confidential damaged their ability to take to court. Essentially, his patients sat coupled with listened on headphones to particularly prepared recordings (often of Saint chant) with the higher frequencies boosted.

Over a period pay for time this re-balanced the take to court. Patients would often report decent results. The Tomatis method levelheaded highly valued by some, on the contrary dismissed by others as pseudo-scientific.

I remember reading that at tending point, Tomatis switched from handle analogue recordings to using digital ones in his practice.

Aback his results were less heroic. He looked into how digital recordings are made and violent that they are composed time off tiny blocks of sound occur to infinitesimal gaps between them. These gaps are not detectable hunk the conscious ear, but unquestionable developed a theory that high-mindedness brain could detect them, person in charge in essence refuse to query in the music.

Analogue stick worked better as a cure because there was actually calligraphic continuous flow of sound.

Even broaden effective than recordings would, pick up the tab course, be live music appreciative in front of you wedge a real musician – nobility soundwaves impacting on you relations substantiate.

Being in the presence fairhaired live music is different proud listening to a recording!