Thursday, July 23, 2009

Sound

I've always been intrigued by what part music, and more specifically, sound and its properties, play in the world. I am a musician, a music aficionado, a software engineer, and a space and science enthusiast, and a Buddhist, among other things. I've been wondering for a while now if there is any way I can tie all my interests together, interweaving my research and projects into some sort of manageable frame of activity I can work around or into my day job and other survival activities. Thus, the posts you will see on this blog will be about a variety of topics. I suppose I could separate them out into a minimum of two blogs, one tech, and one personal interests, but that defeats the purpose I've described before, and there isn't enough time in the day for that anymore.

I've been a music fanatic ever since I can remember. The first song I can remember loving was "Dueling Banjos", which to this day I still don't know who recorded. The second was "Theme From S.W.A.T." -- yes, the TV show-- and also I don't know who recorded that one either. I'm on the internet writing this after all, so I could just go look it up but it takes away from the anecdote. I'll do the homework later and let you know.

I like to read, and so my interest in music has led me to various other forms of sound such as sound healing, environmental sounds, and what the properties of sound are from a scientific perspective. Given that all things are one, in the end, I've decided to use this blog to continue to explore, document my travels and findings, and through the practice of awareness, see what I can learn and where my research takes me.

Welcome aboard!