I think what is more important than the sound? the REACTION to the sound?, this could get into philosophy quite quicky but where is the thing that causes the reaction? is it the ear, the brain, the heart, the hair on your neck vibrating, your gut? despite many theories not one of them can be correct, this creates a dualist concept of sound, with sound and the reaction being of equal importance, are they dead without each other? can you have the reaction of sound with imagining that sound but without physically feeling it? :o
LOVE IT! :D
I was wondering about this at first as well, but I couldn't express it, so I went off in another direction...
I especially like that last bit "can you have the reaction of sound with imagining that sound but without physically feeling it" ... I can hear stuff in my head, or I think I can, sometimes you end up humming it out loud, but often you just have a song you've heard going round in your head. So, what is going round when you're not making a noise?? Is your brain replaying the sound it heard, or your interpretation of it?? Am I hearing The Beatles singing "She Said She Said" (that's the one in my head at the moment if I switch it on), or am I "singing" it myself - CRAZY!!! :lol:
When I'm writing songs, I'm usually concentrating on my voice and the guitar I'm playing, but I can hear "arrangements", the whole shebang, in the background... that's what enables me to write through the thing - I can hear the bass, the organ, strings, drums, whatever... it helps me get the "reaction" to what the whole thing would sound like if it was recorded or being played live, so that it excites me enough to think I'm working on something worth working on...
But usually I can't turn this amazing backing band in my head into reality... :( It was actually even worse when I had a real band - they couldn't hear this "other" band, obviously, and unfortunately they had no intention of trying to play what those guys had been playing!! :lol:
