[Vedun*]

after watching an interesting video on sound therapy a while back, the main premise of the teaching was that sounds themselves are generally not good or bad it has more to do with the intent behind the sound, or a mix of both. sound and intent. so its my feeling that the answer to your question is that it depends. in most cases i would say no, but i would like to do more research on the topic...

i was watching a program about a girl who had a condition called synasthesia where she could see colors and experience tastes associated with sounds. she reported often seeing beautiful colors associated with certain sounds, but interestingly said she couldnt stand going to the local night clubs/discos with her friends as the music there caused her to see rather unappealing colors and giant black squares reverberating out of the speakers with the throbbing bass.

its an interesting topic id like to learn more about. my underlying feeling is that we are accustomed to certain sounds from a young age, and gain distortions towards certain sounds. some of these are positive in origin some negative. i think even the negative can have a therapeutic effect on some depending on their current distortion. i think its a pretty complex topic, without a lot of generalities, but i do believe that much of the music in the rock vein we have been accustomed to, acts as a kind of stimulant almost like a drug, and (this was also mentioned on the sound therapy thing) loud music no matter what the genre stimulates the fight or flight adrenaline response in humans automatically. this is not really a healing or therapeautic process -- generally speaking.

so basically what im saying is that i think there are negative/postitive/ and neutral forms of rock music, but that we have distortions towards certain styles for whatever reason, perhaps we like certain sounds that resonate with the chaos around us at this time. i suspect there are forms of music incredibly healing and spiritual, that transend physical reality, that we have not yet really tapped into fully. we have only scratched the surface so to speak.