Consider this. The things we remember most vividly are usually those we didn't see, that used a non visual sense - like one's first kiss (tactile), a fine wine (taste), unusually bad or good smells, unforgettable songs and speeches.
A sound that first opened my mind to nature's limitless possibilities, a sound I will never ever forget, is the whale song. While studying at Brisbane, I had volunteered with injured dolphins at Sea World and then hand fed wild dolphins at Tangalooma before moving on to a whalewatching trip at Harvey Bay. The first sight of a breaching whale and her calf was memorable no doubt, but it was the hydrophone that really got to me. Web 2.0 hadn't arrived back in 1998, and I have long since lost whatever I captured on camera. Till I found something on YouTube today.
Enjoy the sounds. If you know the significance of the song of the humpback whale and the fact that she never repeats a tune the following year, you will love this even more. In this video, her song has been set to native American flute music.
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Beautiful...wud just like to say that the most beautiful things we remember are the ones where we have let ourselves free to accept and absorb life... cud be what we saw...the sunrise, northern lights, watching a newborn yawn, knowingly letting the kitten (hiding behind the drapes without realising you can see her) to pounce on your shoe lace, the dew on the green grass...
Very true, anonymous. I can see all the pics you have narrated in my mind's eye! The point I was making related to events that make a huge impact because they happen once in a lifetime. We tend to use our eyes all the time, but it's only when we shut them that we really 'see', right?
Lynn, I agree with your emphasis on non-visual senses. but we rarely use the senses other than sight to understand things . if only we were to close our eyes and touch them, hear them or smell them, a whole new universe of understanding would bloom within us. but having seen , we assume we know all that is to be known.
got here through Manish Sinha's blog...youve got some nice stuff here. i enjoyed myself while reading them. cheers!
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in fact, had to put this link as the comment over here:
http://tangled-up-in-views.blogspot.com/2006/10/some-of-my-3rd-thought.html
its something i wrote long ago...and thanks for the appreciation!
hi meraj, glad you enjoyed Mrs Humpback's little song. She of course knows nothing about sensory marketing but those who are working hard to save the whales and their communication, such as iwhales.org, sure do!
sure they do...maybe they should come up with a complete album of whale songs with music added by all the great musicians of our times...knopflers guitar, ian anderson's flute, venessa mae's violin, amjad ali khan's sarod...the list is endless. well promoted, the album would be a huge success and will go a long way in the path of the cause.
cheers!
Is there really anything like once in a lifetime...its another thing that we may let them happen just once...your views?
thanks for the link, ms dolphin!
Anonymous, all 'firsts' happen only once in a lifetime......at another level ofcourse every single event happens only once in a lifetime and the more curious and openminded among us find newness even in the most mundane I suppose. But the point of the blog was the whale song, and how humans are cutting off the most vital piece of communication of the world's largest creatures. That's what her song was supposed to say, and I hope somewhere in all this you did get that message too!
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