In the book, "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession," the author, Daniel J. Levitin, Ph.D. discusses the important influence that music has on the human being. He has analyzed the science behind music, and has come up with some remarkable conclusions, not the least of which is the fact that we "hear" with our entire bodies. Sound, as the physicists among us would confirm, is a physical manifestation, not some amorphous "thing" that passes through our ear drums.
In that vein, a musician by the name of Evelyn Glennie is one of the most remarkable people I have ever encountered. She is a Scottish percussionist, and in this video, she explains how she "hears" with her entire body; how the sounds that emanate from her various instruments are assimilated and manifested within her. She speaks eloquently, distinctly, with a lovely Scottish brogue that belies the fact that she is profoundly deaf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qra2Dp9KZkI&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL19CE3884E6DD355C
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