Music cuts a communication channel straight through your body & mind, laying an access directly to the subcutis of your soul. Through this straight & basal communication link music pours itself directly into your inner world and experience, stiring up powerful emotions. Your emotions.You don’t have to understand the communication that music pours into the cut. You feel it. And thus you understand it. You understand it in your world, you unterstand it in you.
For years I have sought to create such a direct communication link for scientific communication. To carry on Carl Sagan after he was gone (even if we still have Neil deGrasse Tyson around), make Contact with others (even if they are not “ready to go!”), to save the world for everyone (even if it’s the game for real). We fused emotional storytelling and scientific simulation in video games to let people get in interaction with scientific/systemic knowledge by letting them touch a virtual world and maybe even letting them being touched by a virtual world – a virtual world that could be possibly yours (think of ownership in Minecraft). Maybe that was the error: We created worlds for you instead of letting “it” directly rain onto the soul-soil of your world. Maybe simulation is not the solution to save the real world. Maybe it’s music. Music gives me soul-shivers – simulation does not. No one wants to read Simulacra & Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, but everyone has seen Matrix.
No need to run and hide – it’s a wonderful, wonderful life.
No need to lie and cry – it’s a wonderful, wonderful life.
Welcome to the Reset of the Real 