'what i found so challenging about this subject is it is so difficult to explain through words, no one will understand unless they too have been there and experienced it for themselves'

quoting myself from my presentation this statement keeps cropping up all the way through my project and is directing my line of thought... what can i do/ Fever Ray do, that will allow us to share the experience we had?

could i send something out to the fans to create their own experiences or re-live the experience she had created.

how can i get people at home to engage with music on other levels, not just listening to the cd but creating an experience like ones at live shows.

Colours used in the performance

The colours used in the performance are mainly blue green and purple, with soft glows of yellow/ orange from the haunting lampshades.

Green: Affects the nervous system, and is hypnotic and sedative. Lowers blood pressure. It is useful in cases of exhaustion, neuralgia, nervous irritability, anxieties, neurotic fears, and headaches. Has an overall calming affect (This is why green is used in operating theatres and on hospital gowns for its calming effect). Comforting.

Violet: Has the most subduing influence followed by purple.

Blue: Light blue: Youthful, cool, masculine
Dark blue: Calming, trustworthy, stable, mature

  Green

Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety. Dark green is also commonly associated with money.
Green has great healing power. It is the most restful color for the human eye; it can improve vision. Green suggests stability and endurance. Sometimes green denotes lack of experience; for example, a 'greenhorn' is a novice. In heraldry, green indicates growth and hope. Green, as opposed to red, means safety; it is the color of free passage in road traffic.
Use green to indicate safety when advertising drugs and medical products. Green is directly related to nature, so you can use it to promote 'green' products. Dull, darker green is commonly associated with money, the financial world, banking, and Wall Street.

Dark green is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy.
Yellow-green can indicate sickness, cowardice, discord, and jealousy.
Aqua is associated with emotional healing and protection.
Olive green is the traditional color of peace.

  Blue

Blue is the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.
Blue is considered beneficial to the mind and body. It slows human metabolism and produces a calming effect. Blue is strongly associated with tranquility and calmness. In heraldry, blue is used to symbolize piety and sincerity.
You can use blue to promote products and services related to cleanliness (water purification filters, cleaning liquids, vodka), air and sky (airlines, airports, air conditioners), water and sea (sea voyages, mineral water). As opposed to emotionally warm colors like red, orange, and yellow; blue is linked to consciousness and intellect. Use blue to suggest precision when promoting high-tech products.
Blue is a masculine color; according to studies, it is highly accepted among males. Dark blue is associated with depth, expertise, and stability; it is a preferred color for corporate America.
Avoid using blue when promoting food and cooking, because blue suppresses appetite. When used together with warm colors like yellow or red, blue can create high-impact, vibrant designs; for example, blue-yellow-red is a perfect color scheme for a superhero.

Light blue is associated with health, healing, tranquility, understanding, and softness.
Dark blue represents knowledge, power, integrity, and seriousness.

  Purple

Purple combines the stability of blue and the energy of red. Purple is associated with royalty. It symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, and ambition. It conveys wealth and extravagance. Purple is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic.
According to surveys, almost 75 percent of pre-adolescent children prefer purple to all other colors. Purple is a very rare color in nature; some people consider it to be artificial.
Light purple is a good choice for a feminine design. You can use bright purple when promoting children's products.
Light purple evokes romantic and nostalgic feelings.
Dark purple evokes gloom and sad feelings. It can cause frustration.

Colours and emotions

Many languages contain expressions that use colour metaphorically (common examples in English include "green with envy," "feeling blue," "seeing red," "purple passion," "white lies," and "black rage.") this can make it difficult then to translate these ideas in to other languages in different cultures.

Although the medical benefits are still in question, colour has been shown to cause definite physical and emotional reactions in humans and in some animals.

People who view a display of unusual colours produced by special illumination may experience headaches and nervous disorders; tasty wholesome food served under such conditions appears repulsive and may even induce illness.

Scientific evaluations have linked the sensations of relaxation or pleasure, tension or irritation, spirituality or passion to the influences of colour. A number of studies over the years have looked at the relationship between colour and emotions. This can have a number of practical applications. Children who are taught in a predominantly red classroom will become irritable. The impact of strong reds could be one reason why so many fast food chains are coloured red, yellow or orange. Studies suggest this stimulates the customers making them hungry yet impatient at the same time (New Idea, 20/06/92 p. 43 Colour Your World).

Understanding the psychological effect that light has on us is important in relating to light and colour. When light strikes our eyes, it stimulates a chain of events throughout the body. These reactions might be, a quickening of the nervous system, excitation or depressing, and effect of tranquillity etc. Feelings of irritation or pleasure may occur.

Some basics in colour theory involve the idea of "colour temperature", temperature being defined as colours that would be considered cool, warm or even hot.

Colours in the muted blue, green and violet range are considered as "jewel tone colours". They are "Cool colours" and are, restful, and tranquil for the eye. Warm colours would be defined as muted range of red, brown and orange. These colours are used to keep the mind stimulated and alert. Hot colours are yellow, pink, bright orange, and pure red. The uses of these colours are for the purpose of exciting the eye. The soft colours are blue, green, and violet. Soft colours are also known as cool colours, because of the cooling effect they have psychologically. They also have a quieting and relaxing effect, although they can be cold in some way if not lifted by something else.  

-science states that the colours used in the performance should result in feelings of tranquility and restful.  the colours and use of lighting has major effects on the mood created and the emotion of the audience.

Remembering emotions

Many researchers use self report measures of felt emotion as a manipulation check. This raises an interesting question and a possible methodological weakness: are people always accurate when they recall how they felt in the past? Several findings suggest this is not the case. For instance, in a study of memory for emotions in supporters of former U.S. presidential candidate Ross Perot, supporters were asked to describe their initial emotional reactions after Perot’s unexpected withdrawal in July 1992 and again after the presidential election that November.

Between the two assessment periods, the views of many supporters changed dramatically as Perot re-entered the race in October and received nearly a fifth of the popular vote. The results showed that supporters recalled their past emotions as having been more consistent with their current appraisals of Perot than they actually were.

Another study found that people’s memories for how distressed they felt when they learned of 9/11 terrorist attacks changed over time and more so, were predicted by their current appraisals of the impact of the attacks (Levine et al., 2004). It appears that memories of past emotional responses are not always accurate, and can even be partially reconstructed based on their current appraisal of events. 

-this shows that people's memory of emotions change over time and it would be a more precise account of emotions and experiences if i was to play the live show to them with the questionnaire this way they are recording the emotion they are feeling at the time

A shared experience

Subjective vs. objective emotions

The view of the self as independent in individualistic cultures leads to the perception of emotions as a unique personal experience.
The emotional reality is therefore taken as subjective: different people are expected to have different emotional worlds, and to react in different ways to the same experiences.
On the contrary, in collectivistic cultures, emotions are experienced out of relationships.
They reflect the outer, rather than the inner world and are therefore taken as objective: it is assumed that all people experience the same emotion in a given social situation.

-this shows that the audience at the performance experienced the same emotion even though they may name it differently it is the same emotion they experienced

What are emotions?

Emotion is the complex psychophysiological experience of an individual's state of mind as interacting with biochemical and environmental influences. In humans, emotion fundamentally involves "physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience".
Emotion is associated with mood, temperament, personality and disposition, and motivation.
A related distinction is between the emotion and the results of the emotion, principally behaviors and emotional expressions. People often behave in certain ways as a direct result of their emotional state, such as crying, fighting or fleeing. If one can have the emotion without the corresponding behavior, then we may consider the behavior not to be essential to the emotion. Neuroscientific research suggests there is a "magic quarter second" during which it's possible to catch a thought before it becomes an emotional reaction. In that instant, one can catch a feeling before allowing it to take hold.
The James-Lange theory posits that emotional experience is largely due to the experience of bodily changes. The functionalist approach to emotions holds that emotions have evolved for a particular function, such as to keep the subject safe.

There are basic and complex categories, where some basic emotions can be modified in some way to form complex emotions. In one model, the complex emotions could arise from cultural conditioning or association combined with the basic emotions. Alternatively, analogous to the way primary colors combine, primary emotions could blend to form the full spectrum of human emotional experience. For example interpersonal anger and disgust could blend to form contempt.ensional "circumplex model" which describes the relations among emotions.
This model is similar to a color wheel. The vertical dimension represents intensity, and the circle represents degrees of similarity among the emotions. He posited eight primary emotion dimensions arranged as four pairs of opposites. Some have also argued for the existence of meta-emotions which are emotions about emotions.

Another important means of distinguishing emotions concerns their occurrence in time. Some emotions occur over a period of seconds (for example, surprise), whereas others can last years (for example, love). The latter could be regarded as a long term tendency to have an emotion regarding a certain object rather than an emotion proper (though this is disputed). A distinction is then made between emotion episodes and emotional dispositions. Dispositions are also comparable to character traits, where someone may be said to be generally disposed to experience certain emotions, though about different objects. For example an irritable person is generally disposed to feel irritation more easily or quickly than others do. Finally, some theorists place emotions within a more general category of 'affective states' where affective states can also include emotion-related phenomena such as pleasure and pain, motivational states (for example, hunger or curiosity), moods, dispositions and traits.
The neural correlates of hate have been investigated with an fMRI procedure. In this experiment, people had their brains scanned while viewing pictures of people they hated. The results showed increased activity in the medial frontal gyrus, right putamen, bilaterally in the premotor cortex, in the frontal pole, and bilaterally in the medial insula of the human brain. The researchers concluded that there is a distinct pattern of brain activity that occurs when people are experiencing hatred.

Sigur Ros -interactive

Sigur Ros have a lot fan-band interaction through their website and have amazing competitions where winners have the chance of winning personal, one of items such as the bands instruments. I think this is such a beautiful, personal touch for a band which is so huge, to give away signed instruments it is something a fan would treasure forever and holds a lot value on such a personal level.