Inspired by those facts, I began to imagine what it might feel like to lose the sense of touch. You’ve learned to tune it out.) Also, Touch is considered to be the mother of all senses and is "extraordinarily important for development, both cognitive and a healthy body" (- David Linden) So as I was trying to figure out what this song should be about, those pieces of information kept ringing in my ears. It’s so on in fact, that we train our brains to filter out less important touch information because it’s so overwhelming (an example: if you’re sitting right now, you most likely aren’t thinking about how the chair feels underneath you, or if you’re standing, how the floor feels against your feet. But for the majority of people, touch is always on. Hearing: you can cover your ears, sight: you can close your eyes, taste: you can choose to not eat something, smell: you can close your nose. One fact in particular stood out to me Unlike any of the other 5 senses, you can't shut down your sense of touch. There seem to be endless possibilities of poetry in the sense of touch, so I had a tough time picking a path. I did a lot of research on the sense of touch before writing this song, and was so fascinated by what I learned. I suppose if the Piano was a caress, the Drums would be a sturdy high-five. So I chose to use both. Even down to the aftertouch of pressing a key. And if built well, the piano was made to precisely account for every type of human touch we can throw at it. A single key pressed, sends a domino effect through the piano to form a single strike of the piano strings, which are pulled to a tension that can exceed 40 tons. The piano has so many different mechanisms of contact: keys, hammers, pads, damper pedal, etc. You use all of your fingertips (one of the most touch receptive parts of our body) and at least one foot to play it. But after thinking further, the piano might actually be most deeply related instrument to our sense of touch. They are certainly the most visceral instrument I could think of, and require the most intense contact.
I spent a lot of time thinking through what “touch” sounds like, and what instruments most represent the sense of touch.
It's also the first of five songs written for the Senses theme - a song for each of the five classical senses, in the order they develop inside the womb: Touch, Taste, Smell, Hearing and Sight. “Touch” ( iTunes) is the fifth song in my Atlas: Year Two series.
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