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On another level...
Jan. 5th, 2022 02:39 pmAnother level of perception: while the guys were here visiting, I had a weird moment. One of them plays music all the time and is really into it -- well, he was playing mostly prog rock, and some song came on that made both him and the bug go "WHOA" at the same time. To me it was just another song and didn't sound very special, but both of them instantly knew the band, and knew the three instruments usually played by the band, and recognized that a violin was playing along with the original three and that apparently was unusual enough to remark on. I don't know what that must be like, to be that aware of sound and so many of its qualities and origins and timbres all at once.
Another level of performance: has everyone else already seen Kamila Valieva the figure skater, who's breaking world records all over the place in technical scores? Here's a long program and a short program. To someone who last closely followed skating twenty years ago, this is otherworldly. She has quad jumps -- no women used to have quad jumps - and she can make them pretty, and she's flexible like Sasha Cohen used to be. And she is 15, which means she was born after those athletes I could actually name were in their primes. Absolutely unreal. I wonder if she has any moves named after her yet... she does some interesting things like triples with her arms up overhead.
When I think about full-body or full-brain recording, this is what I think about. To be able to feel what it's like to skate a performance like that, what it's like to experience music with an expert ear. (On a more mundane level, imagine being a coach able to record your athlete's best attempt at a skill and feel what they're hung up on and where they are weak or not paying the right amount of attention.)
Another level of performance: has everyone else already seen Kamila Valieva the figure skater, who's breaking world records all over the place in technical scores? Here's a long program and a short program. To someone who last closely followed skating twenty years ago, this is otherworldly. She has quad jumps -- no women used to have quad jumps - and she can make them pretty, and she's flexible like Sasha Cohen used to be. And she is 15, which means she was born after those athletes I could actually name were in their primes. Absolutely unreal. I wonder if she has any moves named after her yet... she does some interesting things like triples with her arms up overhead.
When I think about full-body or full-brain recording, this is what I think about. To be able to feel what it's like to skate a performance like that, what it's like to experience music with an expert ear. (On a more mundane level, imagine being a coach able to record your athlete's best attempt at a skill and feel what they're hung up on and where they are weak or not paying the right amount of attention.)
