Overview

The Muuz display cconsists of three rectangles. A large, steel-grey rectangle is at the lower two-thirds of the display. Above, on the left, is a red nearly square form that allows you to switch to the other displays --- or to Quit the program.

You can start Muuz by simply typing

	% muuz

from the command line.

Two screens will pop up, the muuz rectangle, and atop it, roughly centered, the cautionary display that displays the licensing agreement for using Muuz. If you click on the "YES" button, the cautionary display will disappear and you will be ready to play around with the program with this Control Panel display.

NOTE
The Muuz program is not for everyone; if flashing lights bother you, you may want to use the AUDIO only mode. Or you may not want to use Muuz at all.

The Control Panel

To the right of the red form is a blue rectangle with the label ``Control Panel'' at the top. There are 6 buttons within this rectangle that will let you explore some of the functionality of this program; to play around with the various buttons and get a feel for how the programs works.

For starters, mouse-click on the up-arrow of the VOLUME button until the display reads ``40''.

Next, click on the STOP button to the PLAY position. You will hear the AUDIO playing thru your speakers at 1 Hertz.

Next, mouse-click on the up-arrow of the FREQUENCY button until you have speeded up the frequency from 1 to 7; you will hear dual binaural beats with a frequency of 7 times a second.

Next, mouse-click on the up-arrow of the MODE button to move from AUDIO to VIDEO. The sound will stop and the screen that was steel grey will turn a light yellow that flashes 7 times a second.

When you mouse-click again on the MODE up-arrow, you will see the label "A+V" displayed and will hear both the sound of the dual binaural beats and see the screen flashing -- both at 7 times a second.

By clicking on either the up-arrow or down-arrow of the PITCH button to hear the tone of the beats at any of four octaves.

By clicking on either the up-arrow or down-arrow of the COLOR button to change the color of the flashing screen. Five colors are possible now: yellow, orange, blue, pink, and white.

With these button, experiment with Muuz until you have an idea of what it does. When you have selected colors, pitches, volume, and a frequency that is pleasing, sit and watch and listen for a few minutes.

The Pre-Programmed Panel

To use any of the dozens of pre-programmed Muuz selections, if you are on the first screen, click on the button ``Pre-Programmed'' in the upper left hand corner of the display and a moment later the blue pre-programmed rectangular form and controls will appear.

Click on the ``Selections'' up-arrow button 3 times. The word ``Relaxation'' will be displayed in the tiny window to the right of the up-arrow button.

Click on the ``Programs'' up-arrow button one time until you see the word ``Unwind'' displayed in the tiny window to the right of the up-arrow button.

Things are now set for the relaxation program ``Unwind'' to be played. To start playing ``Unwind'', move the move down and to the right to the ``Action'' up-arrow button and click once. You will experience a relaxation light and sound experience that will help take the edge off your day.

Click again on the ``Action'' up-arrow to ``Pause''; click once more on the up-arrow to ``Stop'' the program. And if you click yet once more, you will be back in ``Play.''

You can ``Stop'' the action and change the Selection. There are currently 7 selections:

Creativity
Learning
Relaxation
Meditation
Sleep
Energize
Fun.

Each selection category has several programs. At present, about half of these pre-programmed entries have actually been written. Writing Muuz has turned out to be the easy part; doing earnest research into the neuro-science is the difficult part. Even the programs that are meant just for fun were hard to program simply because what the authors think is fun and what you, the user, think is fun may be very different.

Please do send your feedback about this tutorial document to

	  muuz@thought.org

so that this doc can be made clearer and more useful.