Process Zero and Music
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Process Zero is a feature of the iPhone camera app Halide. My understanding of Process Zero is that it removes the processing that Apple apply to the photos that iPhones take. The result of Process Zero has been described as more film like, unprocessed.
This morning I sat in our living room drinking my coffee, reading the news. Occasionally I would look up and sit silently, looking out of the window at day’s emerging light. There was no noise, no disturbance. Just me, the silence around me, and the thoughts going through my head.
A little later I put on a music playlist that my wife and I quite often listen to on a Sunday morning…and with that the mood of the room changed for me. My body dropped into a relaxed space. My Sunday morning space. Suddenly the unprocessed space became processed. My raw, unfiltered thoughts became coloured by the images, sensations and feelings that the music engendered for me.
The filtered space is appropriate at times, and at times I believe so is the raw, unfiltered mind. Through becoming familiar with my own mind, making friends with it, I find that the world becomes a more manageable place. That takes time though, something that I am working on. So when the mind needs to take a rest from itself, I apply some filters - music, a book, family and friends.