There is a fine line between genius and insanity...
Crazy Genius
by
Koda
Chapter One:
Introduction and Audio Animation
       
Welcome to the mind of a so-called crazy genius.
       
On these pages I will explain how you can see with your ears (described below). I will show you
how to experience telepathy using your eyes, and spin a paper wheel using telekinesis -- in just
minutes. I will explain why psychic and spiritual phenomena are possible -- by essentially proving
that our universe of time, space and matter is, at the most fundamental level, an illusion. I will
describe a pollution free device that "might" enable cars to run on water, but will definitely act
like a huge "battery" to store energy from renewable sources so the energy is always available.
This will eliminate our dependence on nuclear and fossil fuels and solve the problem of climate
change. I will
also describe how it may be possible to simulate anti-gravity, which would transform the world, and
much, much more.
       
It may seem like such ideas can only come from the mind of a genius, but I was not born with any
gifts you do not also possess. Here is the first of many "Koda Quotes."
       
"There are no special people, just special achievements."
       
I will explain more about myself and the reason I have created these Crazy Genius web pages at
the conclusion of this chapter, but right now, let's have some fun as I use a very short fiction
story to explain how you can see with your ears.
***
Audio Animation
       
Gus was born blind, dumb and grumpy. He has spent all day, every day since 1974, sitting on a
curb by the street - in the hot sun, in the blowing rain and freezing snow - all that time feeling
completely unappreciated. All he does is listen and think. He has spent so much time in that one
spot listening to every nuance in the sounds around him that he could tell you the number and height
of the trees across the street. He can recognize different people not only by their voices but from
the sound of their individual footsteps. Gus knows how many cars are parked nearby and if anyone
were to tell him the make and model he could tell you that information as the vehicles come and go.
       
But almost no one ever talks to him. In fact, people often end up acting like he isn't there
because he doesn't respond to their comments, or worse, they refer to him as an object, saying
things like if "that" wasn't there they could park where they wanted. Things like that have a lot
to do with why Gus is so grumpy.
       
Saying he is dumb means that he can't talk, not that he is stupid. Far from it. Gus isn't
distracted by needing a job to survive or the ups and downs of personal relationships. He has no
ambition to consume his mind, and only one hope, that the day will come when someone will be able to
get him to open up so everything that has been pent up inside him can spew out in a never ending
gush of release.
       
But Gus can't talk, or write, or communicate in any way at all. All he can do is listen and
think, so he thinks a lot about the sounds he hears.
       
He asked himself how it is that he can tell where a sound comes from, and it took a really long
time before he figured it out. First he realized that a sound coming from his right reached his
right ear before it reach his left ear. It was louder, and it sounded brighter, having more high
frequency content because the sound wasn't blocked by his head. And because he was such a critical
thinker he also realized the sound waves must be slightly out of phase due to the time difference in
the arrival of the sound wave at each ear. In the same way, sounds coming from his left took longer
to reach his right ear, and all the other details were simply reversed.
       
But what about sounds coming from behind him? That question puzzled Gus for a long time, but
one day he realized that the shape of his ears reduced some frequencies more than others, and those
changes in frequency content also told his brain where sounds were coming from in front of him,
above and below.
       
And there were other things involved, like the way sounds reflect off surfaces creating really
fast but faint echoes or reverberation, which helped him know if the sound was bouncing off a car or
a tree, and those reflections helped him to zero in on the source of the sound.
       
One day Gus was sitting in his spot immersed in the center of his spherical universe made of
sound, listening to birds above and behind him, to cars speeding past from side to side and water
moving below him in the gutter - when a eureka moment occurred. He realized that if he were to put
microphones inside his ears and make a recording, which was then played back through headphones, all
the dimensional sound information would be reproduced and any listener would believe they were
sitting exactly where he was. If someone walked past on the sidewalk behind him during the
recording, the listener would also hear someone walk behind them.
       
Yeah, Gus thought he had invented something pretty cool, but it only made him even more grumpy
because he had no way to tell anyone how clever he was.
       
Then one sunny afternoon Koda walked up to Gus and talked to him like he actually existed.
       
"I know you can't respond," said Koda, "but that thing you think you invented has been done
before. It is called holophonics, and recordings have been made where people wearing headphones can
hear the sounds of someone getting their hair cut and it feels just like they are getting their own
hair cut. People have actually put microphones in the heads of dead people to record a symphony so
listeners wearing headphones feel like they are in the middle of the orchestra. Holophonics is
pretty cool, but Audio Animation goes way beyond that"
       
Gus was angry to begin with and he wasn't happy to learn that someone else had beaten him to his
big idea, but then again he would never be able to do anything with it so he was somewhat pleased
just to know it could actually be done. But this guy just told him something even more amazing
could be done with sound and Gus didn't believe it, 'cause no one knew sound better than he did.
       
"Imagine you have those microphones in your ears and I snap my fingers right here," said Koda.
"Then I snap my fingers over here, and over here."
       
Koda walked around Gus repeatedly snapping his fingers all around Gus's head.
       
"Imagine that rather than snapping my fingers I used a really small source of sound, like the
tip of a spark plug, and when electricity jumped the tiny gap it would make a loud but very small,
broad spectrum 'snap' so all the locational information could be recorded by the microphones in your
ears. Then I move the spark plug just a little bit to the left and make another recording, then I
move it again and again, constantly making recordings as the spark plug is placed in every possible
position in every direction around you."
       
Gus didn't move even a tiny bit but continued to listen to Koda's explanation.
       
"Just as an example," he went on, "let's say we made digital recordings of each 'snap' and used
a computer to play back selected sounds one after another very quickly."
       
Koda stood in front of Gus and moved his arm to trace a circle in the air while repeatedly
snapping his fingers, and Gus could hear a circle being drawn in the air in front of him.
       
"A computer would play back much smaller points of sound and they would come one after another
much, much faster," said Koda, " so the circle you are hearing would be much more clearly defined.
And see," said Koda as he moved all around Gus, "I can make a circle behind you, above your head,
and down here by the ground. If I could snap my fingers fast enough I could make one circle after
another come at you and pass behind you so you would feel like you were moving through a tunnel, a
curving tunnel that twists and turns as you pass through it. The tunnel could stop and reverse
direction so you would travel through it backwards, and you could 'see' which way the tunnel was
going to turn without having to turn your head to look behind you."
       
"I'm blind," thought Gus, "so I am not going to be turning my head anyway."
       
"You could find yourself in the center of a rotating cube ten feet across," said Koda
enthusiastically, "and the cube could shrink till it was only one-inch across rotating in the center
of your head. Of course, all those sound samples would need to be analyzed to find out the exact
variables that tell us how to position a sound where we want it, but we could use that information
to process musical sounds so each instrument in an orchestra could become a different geometric
shape spinning and dancing in choreographed movement in every direction around us at once! 3-D
sound shapes like spaceships could happen all around people in movie theaters as the spaceships zoom
by shooting laser cannons at each other.
       
"Peaow! Peaow!" said Koda, dancing all around Gus simulating spaceships shooting at each other.
       
"This stuff could be broadcast on radio and television," said Koda, "and just think about how
cool animated, 3-D sound shapes would be in video games!"
       
Gus just continued to sit as still as stone, his attention distracted by the sound of an
approaching firetruck.
       
"Yeah, well, I guess you aren't that impressed," said Koda," but since you can't see you might
be interested to know that Audio Animation can be used as a mobility aid for the blind. A video
camera and microchip inside a pair of eyeglasses could convert black and white images into
2-dimensional sound shapes so blind people can recognize everything around them, even read street
signs and house numbers. Add depth detection technology and the world around a blind person could
be displayed as 3-D sound shapes. Gus, you could see clouds for the first time in your life!"
       
Gus remained motionless, but Koda thought he could see a bit of moisture collecting under Gus's
nose.
       
Inside Gus was about to explode with joy. From the sound of the approaching siren Gus knew the
firetruck was slowing down, and to him, the siren sounded like an orchestra playing the kind of
emotionally charged, beautiful music that happens as a movie reaches its dramatic climax. The siren
because so loud Gus couldn't hear himself think, and when the truck stopped directly in front of him
with the siren still blaring Gus knew it was the end of people letting their dogs pee on him. A
fireman rushed toward Gus, clamped a huge pipe wrench on his nose and tore it right off. Then a
hose was attached where his nose used to be and the square nob on the top of Gus's head was turned.
At that moment Gus experienced true spiritual orgasm as his one and only wish finally came true and
everything inside him went gushing out.
***
       
I came up with the Audio Animation process in the 1970s and dedicated ten years of my life to
getting the idea financed. I received an offer of a million dollars from one venture capital group
and two million from another, but there was a catch. I first had to provide a test tape proving the
theory would work. At the time I estimated the cost of producing the test tape was roughly $360,000
(it would be much cheaper now). I needed the money to make the tape, and needed the tape to get the
money. It was a "catch 22" and since I could see no solution I shelved that project in 1985.
       
I am about to talk about who I am and why I am "crazy," but if you think your friends would
enjoy reading what you just read, this is where I ask you to click the Facebook "like" button
below.
       
I am an old, straight, white guy living alone on 2 acres of mostly cleared rain forest on the
big island of Hawaii. The main thing that makes me seem crazy is the fact that I am taking female
hormones in an effort to get my breasts to lactate, and as soon as I can afford it I am planning to
have surgery done to become a hermaphrodite (both sexes). Some people also think I am nuts because
I believe things like telepathy and telekinesis are real, but you can experience these things
yourself in just minutes after reading the next two, very short chapters.
       
Here is another Koda Quote:
       
"There is a rational explanation for everything, even if that explanation has yet to be
discovered."
       
And another:
       
"The difference between an eccentric and a freak is how much money they have."
       
I have always wanted my work to be famous, not my face, so I have avoided public appearances as
much as possible. As a musician and writer I have rarely played music live or done more than a
handful of workshops and book signings. Financial success in these fields requires publicly promoting
one's work, so I have barely managed to get by financially all my life. I haven't had the money to develop my
inventions or pursue other creative work in an efficient way. I have created these Crazy Genius
pages in an effort to make more people aware of my work, and I have a simple request: If you like
something here, please share the link with your friends.
       
You can find more of my work at KodasPlace.com.
       
Music players will appear near the bottom of each of these pages.
       
Thank you for your time and attention.
       
Here is a music player with a collection of mostly spacey synth and guitar music I did with
Darren Weight under the band name Psychic Trance Fur. (We no longer work together but I still
release music under that band name.) I think you will agree that this album is good enough
to have made us rich and famous if we had played live and signed a record deal. (I am still hoping
to become the worlds oldest "overnight success" :)
       
Try track 11, "Wind and Sea," a sort of New Age instrumental I did alone, which everyone,
without exception, likes.
       
Audio Animation is a pretty cool idea, but so is Visual Telepathy, which you can learn to do in
just a few minutes. Got time to read 2 more pages?