Is this the most beautiful thing?
by slimboyfat 13 Replies latest jw friends
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slimboyfat
Does anyone know the tune or the language?
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fokyc
I have PM'd you,
Item posted on YouTube by sternbeisser, these are his notes:
I came across this beautiful girl in Strasbourg/France in August 2007. Sorry for the poor quality, but as I heard this clear, sad voice and the whispering of the harp all I could do was grab the camera and save as much as possible from this poetic scene. - In the meantime it has turned out that her artist name is Yasmeen, and you might want to have a look at her website at
http://www.yasmeensong.com./song1.html
fokyc
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slimboyfat
Indeed I looked up the website last night but it did not seem to work for me beyond the homepage.
I looked on Amazon and I don't see any CDs with her music.
It is so beautiful I think the world must hear this music!
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fokyc
Here is her contact page:
http://www.yasmeensong.com/contact.html
Several other people are ordering her CD direct from her.
fokyc
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slimboyfat
Cool thanks for that, I don't know how I didn't manage to navigate there.
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slimboyfat
Two Girls Singing - Iain Crichton Smith
It neither was the words nor yet the tune.
Any tune would have done and any words.
Any listener or no listener at all.As nightingales in rocks or a child crooning
in its own world of strange awakening
or larks for no reason but themselves.So on the bus through late November running
by yellow lights tormented, darkness falling,
the two girls sang for miles and miles together.and it wasn’t the words or tune. It was the singing.
It was the human sweetness in that yellow,
the unpredicted voices of our kind. -
slimboyfat
Oh well no one else seems impressed fokyc, but I still think it's one of the most beautiful things I have heard. I gather the lady is Muslim, so it may be a Balkan language. It doesn't sound like Arabic to me, not that I know Arabic. It does not make it clear on the website even what language it is.
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chickpea
hauntingly lovely, indeed!
quite possibly it is a means
to heal a wounded heartHarp has power to soothe, but can it heal?
Instrument shows potential to synchronize irregular heartbeats
updated 11:01 p.m. CT, Sun., Dec. 25, 2005 URBANA, Ill. - When a harpist wearing blue hospital scrubs started playing the familiar strains of Pachelbel’s Canon during Edith Zook’s heart procedure, the scene couldn’t have been more surreal.
Surrounded by cutting-edge medical equipment, the 83-year-old patient lay unconscious and sedated, with skinny electrode-equipped catheters snaking from veins in her right thigh and shoulder into her heart. They provided a conduit for a video monitor showing the squiggly waves of Zook’s irregular heartbeat.
Like some weird sci-fi melding of heaven and high-tech Earth, the musician strummed serenely on her 4-foot Irish harp just a few feet away, while the patient snored and her doctor silently examined the ups and downs of rainbow-colored heart waves on the screen.
The music sounded lovely — but it was meant to help heal, not entertain.
Zook suffers from atrial fibrillation, a fast, irregular heartbeat caused by mixed-up electrical signals generated by the heart’s upper chambers. Zook’s symptoms include unnerving palpitations and troubling fatigue that make her suddenly collapse without warning.
Her doctor, Abraham Kocheril, chief of cardiac electrophysiology at the Carle Heart Center in Urbana, says he has found signs that harp music might help sick hearts like Zook’s beat more normally.
Playing the heart into rhythm
The theory is based partly on work by Dr. Ary Goldberger of Harvard Medical School showing that varied rhythms created by healthy hearts are similar to note patterns in classical music.Kocheril’s work also fits with a growing music therapy movement, whose supporters believe music can alleviate some of the mental and physical symptoms of disease.
“People know that music relaxes you. We’re just trying to get more medical validation,” said Kocheril’s harpist and co-researcher, Dr. Jennifer MacKinnon, 35, a Chicago internist. She took up harp-playing at age 10 and as a child, used to play for patients of her father, also a physician.
Some enthusiasts believe the harp has special healing qualities and Kocheril said resonant vibrations from live harp music may be particularly effective at regulating quivering heart rhythms. Other musical instruments and recorded music might offer similar benefits, he said, making a “music prescription” easier to follow.
“Potentially, there could be a prescription for music five days a week ... to keep the heart healthy in general and specifically to keep rhythm disorders under control,” Kocheril said.
New tool for hospitals?
While he doesn’t foresee the elegant but unwieldy harp becoming a routine fixture during heart operations, others have used harpists in intensive-care units to help normalize sick newborns’ heart rates, after surgery to reduce patients’ anxiety, and during childbirth to soothe mothers in labor.Psychologist and harpist Sarajane Williams uses the instrument to help patients deal with chronic pain from arthritis, fibromyalgia and other conditions.
Patients at her Macungie, Pa., office sit in a reclining chair embedded with speakers that allow amplified vibrations from her harp-playing to reach deep into aching tissue like “a musical massage,” Williams said.
She says the vibrations help relieve pain by stimulating circulation and relaxing patients.
Harp therapy also is commonly used to soothe dying patients in hospices.
Maureen Reilly, a nurse-anesthetist in San Antonio, Texas, says the harp’s effect on the body can be partly explained by a physics principle called entrainment. This concept describes the influence of one oscillating system over another.
New life for an old theory Entrainment has become a buzzword in some New Age health circles, but the theory dates back to a 17th century Dutch physicist who found that pendulum clocks started ticking simultaneously when placed next to each other.
Jean-Jacques Slotine, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist who has studied entrainment in mathematics and neuroscience, says it helps explain other effects on the human body, including how Parkinson’s disease patients can walk more easily if they swing their arms. And it’s plausible — though not proven — that entrainment might also explain how music affects the heart, Slotine said.
Dr. Mark Tramo, a Massachusetts General Hospital neurologist and director of Harvard’s Institute of Music & Brain Science, said there’s nothing kooky about the idea of entrainment and using music in healing.
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Robdar
Absolutely beautiful! (until that big beer gut walked in front of the camera)
updated 11:01 p.m. CT, Sun., Dec. 25, 2005