Concentration

@rvpiano 

Depends on what you’re listening to. It’s most likely easier to concentrate on music when listening to classical, especially symphony. If you’re listening to acoustic jazz it’s easy to involuntarily shift attention to evaluating tone and how each instrument sounds. Listening to Leonard Cohen you want to focus more on lyrics with music being close second in importance. So it’s not a question that can be easily and the answered in my opinion. Too many variables. 

Happy 4th to you and everyone on this forum!!!

@rvpiano lets say you’re in a Carnegie Hall or in a Lincoln Center. You’re listening to your favorite symphony. What do you concentrate on? How do you perceive and comprehend music? What do you listen to - sounds, music, performance or all of it at once?
I can tell you that when I’m at a live performance listening to an orchestra I pay attention to sounds just as much as I pay attention to music and performance. Same at home. The only factor is that the recorded music relies on your quality of your equipment and room acoustics. And your system will either do sounds well or convey emotions or in cases of exceptional synergy it will do all of the above. It also depends on your mood and mindset.

Well yeah those who have a playlist that contains Cardi B’s WAP have a general disconnect. But not all is lost. 
 

I still don’t know why you made that statement originally and what your source for information was and I’m not questioning it. I learned to just use these types of posts for their sole purpose - entertainment 

@devinplombier jazz was prohibited in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s regime. It was considered decadent bourgeois, western propaganda and a threat to communist/socialist ideology. People were arrested for distributing jazz recordings. If they found someone performing jazz in an underground club there would be severe consequences. 

We’re definitely headed towards full de-evolution. I don’t know where you stand on the concept of what you just posted but it is a living proof that some are way ahead of the game. 

simao

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07-06-2025 at 05:56pm 

@audphile1 yeah, but we know you know all the words to "WAP", and that you can never stir a pot of macaroni the same way ever again.
 

There are words in that? I thought WAP is instrumental…