I have music playing 3-10 hours a day and I really enjoy having it on, but a few times a week I’ll hear something that peaks my curiosity and I’ll sit down with my eyes closed and absorb every note, every pluck, every sound and enjoy hearing all the nuances I may have never heard before.
Concentration
I believe to get the best experience with your stereo you have to give your full attention to the music (not the sound.) Reading, doing chores, or writing something (like I’m doing right now) really lessens your enjoyment and can potentially cause you to doubt the quality of your system.
What do you think?
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@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. |
Classical music is as visceral as Jazz but in his own ways... Musical time is not metronomical time nor acoustical time and in classical as in Jazz, the interpretation of what is written by the musicians or their improvisation together, together with or without a director, must create a time dimension of its own where our soul/body meet. Music experience of any cultures is rooted in "timbre" experience and is universal. Our body participation as players or as listeners to the vibrating sound source resonate as a new timing and time dimensions... Rythms are the root and timbre is the tree whose branchs are many new time dimensions. Concentration is born in our body real or virtual response gestures to the music perceived and/or created. |
I was talking about the general disconnect in democratic society between classical music and non-listeners, likely due to the perception of that genre’s elite origins. Music bans by totalitarian regimes are a whole different ball of wax. The Taliban bans all music, musicians, and instruments. Compare to Stalin’s laissez-faire :)
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“classical is perhaps the only music genre that periodically faces calls to be either removed from the curricula of public universities or to have public subsidy of its study and performance curtailed or ended” I don’t know where you get your information, but as someone who is in the business I can tell you that it’s far from the truth. |
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