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Amonbrune
from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-06-12 09:25 [#00261810]
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Local Grassy Hill Highschool student, Edward Rolden reported last thursday his hightened sense of knowledge of mathematics and biology due do his listening of 'Intelligent dance music' or IDM prior to his final exams.
"I was sitting outside on the stairs listening to some Plaid on my walkman when all of a sudden a great understanding of physics came upon me," remembers Rolden, age 17. "Some girl asked me what I was listening to but I just gave her the finger."
"It's true," Lisa Howlesworth explains. "Before we had to send in a special teacher for him to go one on one so he would get more attention. This was outside normal classes so no one could bug him."
Rolden reports not only hightened physics understanding but the human body as well.
"After I had finished with some Plaid I immediatly put in some Aphex Twin...this Drukqs cd here. Suddenly I saw all the diagrams I skipped in class and I knew everything. At that point I knew I was going to pass. I listened to a group called Autechre on my way to class."
Teachers aren't going to give up the search for what made Rolden a grade A student in less than 10 minutes. Recent research has begun.
"What we've done," states Howard Porabellini, "is we've started to catalogue all the incidents where Edward's capacity for information expanded and processed that to find the exact thing which helps him do that. We've had the meetings and we really don't believe his music is the key to this. All it is is noise really...awful."
Rolden passed his two exams with A on both and plans to attend a University as soon as possible.
When asked where he plans going he responded by saying, "I don't care where the **** I go."
Billy Grace Grassy Hill Times
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Junktion
from Northern Jutland (Denmark) on 2002-06-12 09:28 [#00261813]
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weird....
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-06-12 09:30 [#00261814]
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IDM has killed my grades... I spend too much time listening to it, and it makes me want to do creative stuff... not involving school.
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doki
from cologne (Germany) on 2002-06-12 09:45 [#00261831]
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i agree ophecks ;) .... but that sentence " ... we don´t believe it´s the music ... all noise, awful ..." - very sad
i heard a good quote on the radio this morning by a german musician (herbert grönemeyer if anybody cares - i don´t like him) - he said everywhere especially in england the people are, no matter which age open to music and respect one being musician - in germany when you tell ´em that you are musician, they ask: fine, but what job do you have? ...
that describes it very well for me ...
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princo
from Shitty City (Geelong) (Australia) on 2002-06-12 09:48 [#00261837]
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damn it! there must be some special way of listening to it then!
cause it did ruin my grades. it was a huge distraction.
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Zeus
from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-06-12 11:06 [#00261913]
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um, i dont think its a real story guys...
there have been many threads asking if IDM really is intellegent, and if it makes you smarter...
he was being sarcastic...
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DirtyPriest
from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2002-06-12 11:26 [#00261932]
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Yah
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Chri5py
from my Solarbear (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-12 11:34 [#00261940]
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Amon. You're the man! :D
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Amonbrune
from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-06-12 18:14 [#00262500]
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My story was a joke on the whole thing.
Thanks Chri5py :)
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pachi
from yo momma (United States) on 2002-06-12 18:20 [#00262507]
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if it's true, it kicks ass.
BTW i actually feel that IDM has helped with my thinking at school.
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Amonbrune
from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-06-12 18:20 [#00262509]
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Then more power to ya Pachi! :)
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pachi
from yo momma (United States) on 2002-06-12 18:30 [#00262526]
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"I was sitting outside on the stairs listening to some Plaid
on my walkman when all of a sudden a great understanding of
physics came upon me," remembers Rolden, age 17. "Some girl
asked me what I was listening to but I just gave her the finger."
that's my attitude whilst spinning the Ae ;)
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Amonbrune
from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-06-12 18:30 [#00262527]
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lol ;)
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