What is it with you and audio/music/songs?
I don't understand how people can spend hours upon end listening to sounds with no visual input.
Interestingly, people seem to generally enjoy sound with no visuals but most people won't watch visuals without sound. Sound makes synchronized visuals (such as a movie or the real world) come alive and can even generate images and feelings inside the mind of the listener. The fact that silent movies have gone completely extinct for preference to their multimedia counterparts, and even in the silent film days there was nearly always a piano or band playing along with the film, we see that the average person does not feel emotionally attached or deeply interested to visual stimulation *alone*, compared to adding an audio element.
Interestingly, many people typically seem capable of enjoying audio by itself. In my particular case, this is because music brings emotions, memories and feelings into my mind. Some of these are exciting, some are just beautiful, some are calming, etc. No matter what though, I can always enjoy music without visuals for a much longer period of time than I can enjoy visuals without sound.
If I show you a tranquil, peaceful scene on a TV or somewhere that relaxes you and place you in a dim-lit room to watch the camera move around the scene peacefully, you may not mind it but let me guess: you'll get bored pretty fast. If we suddenly include a very touching, peaceful soundtrack on top of that image, chances are you'll be able to last longer here before getting bored, provided that your mind is open enough to accept doing this to begin with. If you don't want to be subjected to this brain stimulation, you won't receive the full effects of it.
Now, if we turn off the images and leave just the sound playing, you will probably start to bring some of those same feelings that you developed while watching the audio and video together. Depending on the person, you may feel just as much emotional response/stimulation from just the audio as with the audio and the video.
If we turn off the audio and leave the video play, I would guess that your brain would try to produce some sort of audio in your mind to attempt to bring back that same level of emotional stimulation, but it probably won't be as effective as when the audio was actually turned on.
Your mind may create similar images to what you saw when we turn off the video and leave the audio playing, or it may create completely different ones. Even without these images developing in your mind though, one will tend to feel at least a short-term emotional attachment to this music (again, assuming the music was written very well for the video and atmosphere we were trying to set).
The bottom line is, to me, audio by itself can bring incredibly powerful feelings within me. Whether or not the audio puts in image directly in my head, it captures and penetrates the emotional side of my brain and almost inputs feelings directly into it, provided that I'm open minded enough to truly listen to this. If just listening casually, it's true, I could miss a lot of this experience. When really listening though, video will never be able to keep up with the long-lasting and intense feelings that music can bring me.
You'll never catch me watching LBT without the sound on. I can't, it's really boring! However, I have let an LBT movie play in the background while doing something else..I'm listening to the movie and that has a powerful enough effect on me to still be interesting, especially my 'favorite' LBT films; the ones that have the soundtracks that hit me most emotionally.
Could you watch LBT with the sound off?
Could you turn on an LBT movie while relaxing? try it with the sound off. Try it again with the sound on and closing your eyes. Which one has more effect?
Tip: This works best on scenes that have a lot of music playing. Try it!
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