Saturday, December 11, 2004

Auditory and Visual Beauty go well Together

(1)

We are beginning to enjoy the Christmas Season again which for me is mostly music. I love all those old songs. So I tuned in to channel 4's (CBS) Christmas Special presented by the CSO. As backup on the other tv I had channel 6 (PBS) tuned in. I looked forward to some good music as I poured my first drink. But the ch-6 stuff was pretty tinney, and the old ordinary faces of the choir on ch-4 did not match the music... so I tuned my tivo to MSNBC, a great piece about bush pilots in the Amazon. I could relate to that. But there is a certain discord between booze and airplanes. I would prefer great music and beautiful faces tonight. Maybe I'll replay my tivo of Andre Rieu in Tuscany.

Andre Rieu understands the media: he understands that there is a synergy in television between beautiful music and beautiful scenes (beautiful faces are the most beautiful scenes). Visual and auditory sensations are extremely synergetic.