There is extensive evidence that demonstrates our inborn affinity for music. Infants seem to have innate musical preferences. Babies will turn towards consonant or pleasing tones and away from dissonant sounds as early as two months. Modern medical images of the brain show pleasure centers light up while listening to an orchestra play beautiful symphonies. These are the same pleasure centers that respond to sex, eating chocolate, and taking cocaine. What is it about music that seems to be imprinted in our cells?
One of the researchers, Markus Buehler of MIT, said, "There might be an underlying structural expression in music that tells us more about the proteins that make up our bodies. After all, our organs - including the brain - are made from these building blocks, and humans' expression of music may inadvertently include more information than we are aware of." Music may soon tell us much more about our biology and reveal new insights into our humanity. The processes that produced the biology, DNA, and building-block proteins may be encoded in a universal song.
In a separate but strikingly similar experiment, French physicist Joel Sternheimer developed a system for converting the amino acid sequences in plant protein into music. Sternheimer found that the compositions based on these amino acid sequences produced aesthetically pleasing music. When the "song" made from a plant's amino acids was played back to the plant, its growth rate increased markedly, and its resistance to drought and disease also improved. Just as with the proteins in the spider silk, music composed from the biological building blocks in plants was pleasing and produced positive feedback effects when played back to the plants.
There is also a huge body of evidence - built up over many years - showing that the specific frequencies making up the human voice indicate a person's health. Like a musical orchestra, our human voice consists of a large, measurable collection of sounds and a wide spectrum of frequencies. The leading authority on analyzing the tremendous amount of information in the voice, Sharry Edwards, has learned to glean detailed insight into a person's underlying health from his voiceprint. A trained voice expert can detect information regarding one’s emotional, physical, and nutritional status and the presence of pathogens, toxins, etc. One of the consequences of Edwards' work was the development of "Sound Treatments" that addressed underlying problems detected in a voiceprint. Listening to the appropriate frequencies restates the voice to a healthy profile, and the associated physical ailment is resolved.
Going far beyond the scope of the MIT spider silk work, modern Sound experts would claim that there are voluminous examples of music reflected in the inanimate universe around us. A famous mathematical sequence found throughout nature is the Fibonacci pattern.
The Fibonacci sequence is 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34, etc. (the following number is the sum of the two preceding numbers). Familiar examples of this pattern in nature include the design of a nautilus seashell, petals in a flower and the human body.
The Fibonacci sequence converts directly to standard musical scales found worldwide throughout the ages. From Ancient China to modern times, skywatchers have found musical elements in the stars and other celestial bodies. The movements of the stars and planets can be expressed as "Star tones"; a clear link exists between the Stars and musical systems, octaves and harmony. Throughout the ages, there has been a consistent belief that there is a deep spiritual harmony in the design and flow of the universe. Music is literally an expression of this harmony.
Could Sound and Music be far more than we have thought them to be? Ancient Civilizations considered Music a mystical force and carefully guarded its secrets. Modern experts believe Sound energy can interact with and alter our subtle energies, opening up vast opportunities for healing and growth.
The human voice contains voluminous information on the underlying state and wellness of the body. Musical compositions are grand "stories" employing numerous instruments, notes, pitches, rhythms, octaves, and so on - producing a holistic effect beyond the sum of the parts.
Music could be the universal language of nature; deeper yet, it could mirror the grand plan that makes us and our surrounding world what we are.
MIT reference:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012, November 28). Researchers synthesize a new kind of silk fiber and use music to fine-tune the material's properties. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 11, 2013, from
http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2012/11/121128112157.htm