Brain Mapping- Mental illness represented through music- For Solo Keyboard

[nickc]

Track Listing is important... or else it won't make much sense.

Composed and performed on the Korg SV-1 Keyboard.

Brain Mapping - An experimental Album (Maybe not the easiest listen)

Many people seem to suffer from mental illness but yet it is still so misunderstood. The goal with this album was to help people to hear what various conditions sound like. I also tried my best to illustrate various forms of emotional states as well, but keep in mind that all these compositions are subjective.

0:00 Autism (Sensory Overload)
0:31 ADHD
1:20 Bi-Polar
4:24 Addiction
6:28 Depression
10:12 Joy
12:28 Anger
14:18 Schizophrenia
16:26 Daydream (Star Gaze)
18:55 Psychosis
21:23 Paranoia
22:30 The Realization (Problem and Solution)
23:36 Life (Birth)
25:16 Death

[nickc]

Anyone have a chance to listen and review?

[emill]

Interpretation is subjective and colored to a great extent by personal circumstances. A priest, a physician, an engineer or a house-person will view things differently.  So my comments are just what they are ... personal opinions on how your music "affected" my consciousness.

Autism ... perhaps more chaotic or disordered or intense to suggest sensory overload and the end seems to suggest resolution instead of some degree of confusion.  

Bi-Polar: if there was a manic stage ... a euphoria... I did not hear it ... you seem to have represented the depressed state only ...  the lightness in addiction could have suited the manic state well.

schizophrenia : it was spirited and orderly .... I would have preferred something more catatonic ... single long notes .... denoting catatonia

Psychosis ... disorientation to time, person, place .... delusions, hallucinations, burst of tempers, violence .... plain craziness  .... it was again too orderly for what I feel should represent total disordered thought.

Death ... for most perhaps ... dying evokes fear and its variants ... the music on the other hand evokes an atmosphere more of joy ... lightness of feeling.  Oh well, for some dying will be happiness.  THANKS for POSTING ... quite interesting.

[nickc]

Thanks for listening Emill. Interesting views! I agree with you in reagrds to psychosis... it was to tame As for Death... we all must face it. Some fear it, I find it to be the last mystery and adventure that we will experience in this life.