(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually, as part of a future solo album)

Good afternoon my SC friends. This year, I thought it might be fun to share some of the brain rebooting information I’ve discovered over the years that helped me navigate life a little easier. So if you like the idea of following along with these liner notes, you’ll want to watch this video first (about 1 minute... Selective Attention Test video: https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo), before you continue reading down. It’s quite challenging to get the count right, but the results are utterly fascinating. :)

*waits patiently*

Welcome back. So, if you haven’t already seen it before, you just watched a video that brilliantly demonstrates our limited capacity as observers. I admit, I was so busy counting the passing ball… I totally missed the gorilla. Most of my family missed it as well. And according to the creators of the video, at least 50% of the audience will. That’s mind blowing.

So what does that say about our perceptions? It seems to suggest we’re not as aware as we think we are. And that is a lovely thought, because it means we don’t have to be so hard on ourselves when we misperceive things. We are literally incapable of taking it all in, and therefore we don’t always have the full picture (or even the same picture as our fellow traveller).

And that just demonstrates the limits of our mental awareness. Now consider our senses for a moment… how our hearing range is limited to a range of 20Hz to 20kHz. Think about how our vision doesn’t go below the ultraviolet or above the infrared. And I know I can’t smell things to the excellent degree my family’s pets can. 

The one that really blows my mind is that we aren’t ever physically touching anything. There is always an atomic amount of space between all objects. So when I sit down in a chair, what’s really happening is the molecular particles that collectively agreed to make up my butt are interacting with the molecular particles that collectively agreed to make up that chair; and the signals are all just electrical stimuli to my brain. I believe I can feel the smoothness of the polished woodgrain… but it isn’t a full or accurate story.

So now we have an idea of the limitations of our five senses. Add to that how we are limited to those five senses in the first place (unless some of you have physically developed sonar like a bat or have the ability to create an external multi-member neural network like fungi do underground), and you start to have a better idea just how much of the picture we are missing. 

So in a nutshell, we simply don’t have the full picture; and that can be a very liberating realization. That idea gave me the wisdom I needed to release my stranglehold on being a perfectionist… just a little bit. If I’m constantly missing things I don’t even know I’m missing, perfection isn’t even an option. I can also take these ideas out into the world with me, and realize we really don’t perceive things as similarly as we think we do. We are constantly being influenced by everything from our senses and mental awareness to cognitive dissonance and the bias of preference. We are each having different experiences, and that underlying realization is a great place to start, if change be the thing we desire. :)

So if you found this write-up interesting, you might enjoy ‘The Invisible Gorilla, And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us’ by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. It’s a thought provoking read. 

I’ll share other inspirational books and TV shows in future song notes. In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed my latest sonic adventure, ‘Develop Mental’ (especially all the little details I added in the 21kHz+ range, as well as the ‘scratch and sniff for dogs’ elements). :)

WTF! The Musical

Develop Mental

It's sticky but it won't hurt you. As for the black goo, well....

Black Goo Research

https://leolambert.bandcamp.com/album/silicon-sun

Her Silicon Sun

YOUTUBE CHANNEL: www.youtube.com/user/WrittenForGuitar
BANDCAMP: georgewanat.bandcamp.com/

In The Fullness Of Time

Shimmerings (Free Download)

Hoppi was the outcast from Replicant Hearts. She didn't make it on the EP. but I hope you enjoy her bouncy charm

*free download

Mood Exhibit - Hoppi

Entropy Will Wait

Check us out on: https://linktr.ee/legacyofthought

The album: Gods of Egypt
A glimpse into the ancient Egyptian pantheon...

Release date: 21-07-2023 on Legacy of Thought label:

The tracks:
01 Progeny-1 - Ra
02 Der Bischof - Nuit
03 Sonic Bodhi - Isis
04 Sonic Bodhi - Sobek
05 K37 - Osiris
06 Time Away - Sekhmet
07 Colin Stevens - Seth
08 Big Beech - Bastet
09 Promethex - Horus
10 Ivan Black - Aton
11 Wane Of Summer - Shesmetet
12 Helsinki Project - Amon

Artwork & mastering: Chris Held

Time Away: https://soundcloud.com/timeaway
Colin Stevens: https://soundcloud.com/colin-stevens
Der Bischof: https://soundcloud.com/daturasonoris
Andawan: https://soundcloud.com/andawan
Ivan Black: https://soundcloud.com/ivan-black
K37: https://soundcloud.com/k37productions
Progeny-1: https://soundcloud.com/progeny-1-617773258
Big Beech: https://soundcloud.com/big-beech
Promethex: https://soundcloud.com/promethexmusic
Wane of Summer: https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
Sonic Bodhi: https://soundcloud.com/sonic-bodhi
Helsinki Project: https://soundcloud.com/helsinki-project

Gods of Egypt

Bastet

noxpox - Congo Bongo Dub

Free Download

Perform Fidelity

Genre: Techno Acid 190 Bpm
Composer: Fabio Zammarchi

RED LIGHT

Fabio Zammarchi - RED LIGHT

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997hoors

NEW WORLD PERCUSSION ALBUM OUT - “Skin & Wisdom” 

https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/skin-wisdom

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Mood Exhibit - Sound creations focusing on mood, flow, melody, rhythm, and atmosphere. 
I hope to remain unpredictable with each posted track.
Thank you for listening and following me.
-Robert

Blink Twice-
My previous project from mid 1990s through 2003. I released numerous cassettes and 4 CDs often described as "dark ambient industrial". Blink Twice is still alive and is now a place for my darker, more obscure and aggressive work. The line is sometimes blurred. https://soundcloud.com/blink-twice-archival