Why is music,ambient sound, and silence so important to ShapeShifting?
Your body is one of the most complex and intelligent sensing organisms on earth. Its main purpose is to gather and absorb all of the sensory data that is present in the world around you. This means that it not only takes everything in but it responds to it as well. When you are in your preconscious mind, your body is free to tell its story in response to the energy that is being transmitted through the music that you hear, the ambient sounds around you, and even the silence which also is pure energy.
The energy flowing through your body joins with the energy from your environment and creates yet another stream of energy in the form of movement. Your body moves in partnership with its environment. Your are part of an energy duet. ShapeShifting is the movement expression that your body creates in response to the world of energy around it.
Music has a special ability to engage your body. Music allows your body to focus on the moment. No matter what kind of music that you listen to you have to follow each beat or note as it happens in real time. Your body can get lost in the music. Music becomes your partner in a meditative process. And music has the special ability to transpose emotions from the audio to the visual sense. Your body’s movement becomes the visual expression of what you are hearing.