The Profound Effects of Music on Life Talk

(Andrew Pudewa http://iew.com/andrew-pudewa)

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We need a shift on how we look at music

o Its not just a nice thing
o Its a tremendously powerful thing
o One of the most important things we can do for our children in the first 68 years of life
Music in history
o 100 years ago very different much less auditory pollution silence,
birds, horses less vibratory
o Noise today lights, cars, etc. constant state of buzz
o Another change from 100 years ago if you wanted to hear music you
had to find someone else or play yourself Today we have CDs.
o From music producers to music consumers as a result, we have much
less control over the music that we hear.
Effects for us
o ADD sound is related to neurological functions
Science of sound and language
o Tone is the bridge between the world of vibration to the world of language
and meaning
o kids start off recognizing vibration first
o The ability to use language is the ability to think synonymous
o Vibration tone language meaning rational thought and formal
reasoning
o In a world where vibration is abnormal kids cant think rationally.
o We cant pollute the world but we can use certain techniques overcome
this deficit
What measurable effects does music have on people
o College students intelligence level Spatial/temporal test folded and cut
pieces of paper. Mozart, relaxation music, and no music
Mozart Double piano sonata 8 to 10 points increase
o Pre-school children one group free play, one group singing one
group computer, and one group playing piano.
Violin group improved by 46% percent
What does this mean Piano isnt just nice, it had a dramatic
impact on the brain
The question is Why?
A pinch will make a permanent connection after being pinched
you wont need to get pinched again
o Three ways to store information in the brain (Japanese word for toilet Benjo

Intensity I am going to tell you only once but in 1 week I will

give you a million dollars if you remember
Frequency I will call three times every day for 3 weeks
and Duration Come to your door every day for 10 years
o The brain has billions of connections between neurons
85 % of the neural connections are formed in the first six years of a
childs life By six you are pretty much cooked
o Why piano? Music is the only thing that stimulates the brain in a multisensory way using the same set of information
o Highest form of communication, its mathematical, its perfect, no
exceptions
A on piano 440 vibrations per second
one octave up high A 880 vibrations per second
one octave down 220 vibrations per second
o When you are playing music you see it, you hear it, you are feeling
stimulating your brain simultaneously with the same set of perfect
information you are increasing your neural connections, you are growing
your brain only playing music has all three senses working at the same
time.
o Like adding RAM to the computer that God gave you.
o Having kids play an instrument isnt just another nice thing its the
single most powerful thing you can do for a kid.
Effects of music on peoples attitudes (emotions)
o How do different types of music affect people?
Four different types of music and people had to answer questions
about how they would handle situations
o Effects on plants (The Secret Life of Plants)
Plants listening to Classical grew faster, taller, greener, and needed
less water
Plants listening to Jimmie Hendrix and Led Zeppelin grew fast
initially and then withered and died
You can kill plants with music
o People say music is neutral, its not the music, its only the words that are
affecting people
But plants dont hear the words!!!!!
o Study to see if music could affect neurons in mice
one group waltzs, one group no sound, one group
disharmonic sound Vodoo drums raised mice on them
Waltz mice no different than no sound
Vodoo group began to attack each other in their cage
There was actually a change in the shape of the neurons Vodoo
group was pathological, abnormal in shape
Proved that sound can change neurological shape and patterns
(brain structure)

o Study to see if music could affect the behavior of mice

Started twenty days before birth for 12 weeks they heard 16
hours of music per day
Mozart (String divertimentos), white noise (static), minimalist
composer (Philip Glass repetitive (Track 11 2:43)
Mozart complex, melodies, repeating patterns, change,
harmonies, high to low, - perhaps the most complex music of all
music - complicated
Phillip Glass Start contrast of simplicity, most highly repetitive
that she could find
Mice run through maze and measured how quickly they could
memorize it get through it without making a mistake
Mozart group was twice as fast Little rodent geniuses)
Glass group unable to make it through the maze, confused, etc.
This experiment confirmed that music is not just a nice thing
which makes you feel good but a powerful way to affect the brain
simply by changing one variable what you listened to. Playing it
is even more powerful.
o Greek system of education (Trivium)
Rhetoric, (language, reading, and philosophy), Math and
Geometry, and music Had to have all three to me considered
educated.
College student decided to use other music
o Already weened mice, 10 minute mazes, three weeks
o Mozart, silence, heavy metal (Anthrax), - tested them each week for three
weeks plus the initial test. 12 hours a day.
o Initial test Anthrax started out faster advantage
After one week, classical music didnt improve benefits not seen
yet
Heavy metal progressively gets worse
After two weeks, the Mozart group huge increase
Last test 307 control group Classical group 100 seconds
minute and half Heavy metal 1800 seconds a half an hour to
get through the same maze that took them 10 minutes before.
o Two other experiments one before and one after
the one before mice listening to Anthrax began to attack and kill
each other in the same cage highly abnormal for mice
the one after not Anthrax but other types of music Hits of the
Fifties, Hits of the Seventies, Hits of the Nineties
Disc 2 - Track 2 (3:10) You have to use your mind to listen to the
classical
Anthrax Fueled Stomp 445 Disc 2 Track 3 (20 seconds)
What is the dominant factor in the music the beat the rhythm.
o Lesson from the Greeks

Three basic components of music relate to human beings

Melody connected to mind/intellect
Harmony connected to feelings
Rhythm connected to the body
You need all three
They made it illegal to write or play music that was rhythm
dominated why the mind had to govern the heart and the body
o Today rhythm dominated music has become dominant
Is this a bad thing? Not intrinsically March music
But we are becoming hyper stimulated physically not good for
teens
Turn down the radio and what do you hear? Thats the dominant
part of the music
o Something else that has occurred which is abnormal
syncapation moments of off-beat
most popular music today has persistent syncapation creates
tension in the music and for the body
two rhythms in the body heart beats at triple meter one two
three and your pulse one-two
Marches duple four/four
Waltzes triple
Disc Two - Track 5 2:40 example of syncopation the
strongest beat is off the strongest beat of the melody.
o The Human body has a complicated system to deal with stress
Certain chemicals are released into the brain to deal with stressful
situations
Kid lifts the bookshelf with an incredible release of
strength
Or rush of adrenaline
Endorphins numbs us to pain like morphine in
extreme situations
Very sophisticated balance of chemicals going on in our
body
How does music addiction resemble a chemical addiction
Why do kids get crazy when they cant hear the music
Syncapated music goes against the bodies natural rhythms
The body under attack releases chemicals to deal with it
(music)
When the attack continues, the body continues to release
the chemicals until it runs out cycle
Kids listen to hours and more hours every day average is
extremely high focused on stimulating the body
Purpose in presenting this is not to say bad or good

Trying to learn how to listen a little more objectively to the

music that we hear
To listen in a more discriminating way to analyze it
according to its dominance
Other pieces Track 8 (2:00)
Track 8 3:30 (John Michael Talbot) Allows you to worship
because the music allows you to focus on the words, not run
contrary to them
Track 9 Amy Grant its easy to get used to this and think you
are immune to it
Track 10 Reb. St. James Pray not conducive to prayer
narrow range not complex melodically
Track 11 Oxymoron (Giant Shrimp) The Devil is bad
Track 12 Parenting mistake when is daughter was 14 Christian
music newsboys sounds like Smashing Pumpkins 3:30
track 12 4:00 Smashing Pumpkins (Satanic?) repetitive, nonmelody, rhythm based
track 13 Living Sacrifice Threatened Sucks you in
track 14 We need healing In paradise
We see God in nature there is repetition but what is
remarkable is that there is difference in the repetition.
The nature of creation is variety within structure This is
how God is
o Take away structure and only have variety you
have chaos Picasso
o Take away variety and only have structure you
have monotony row of houses
High suicide rate
Coulter and Phillips God himself wrote it - 6:00
o Final Observations Track 15
We live in a country which could have been called distinctively
Christian 200 years ago
Now, there are a majority that are distinctly anti-Christian
When did the change occur? Started to show up in the 50s
and 60s
What changed? TV and music. Has the ability to strip
away the soul, strip away its sensitivity.
Music is the language of the soul if you were the evil one
where would you attack and how would you the attack.
Music shift related to the spiritual decrease in Christians.
Now it has shifted to Christian music what happened in
America is now happening in Churches around America.

o Result will be the wiping out of the spiritual

sensitivity that allows us to stand apart as
Christians.
o Book Crisis in Christian Music