Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

@audio-b-dog, I know all about Oliver Sachs. Actually have a copy of Musicophelia; this is a good reminder to read it. I’ve also heard his lectures. I first became acqainted with him via the neurology connection: he was a well-known researcher in migraine medicine (I’ve had a wicked/continual case of that for the past 15 years). His writing on that topic are fascinating, indeed.

The brain is a funny beast. Once it forms pleasure pathways (with music, sex, drugs, food--literally anything that can light up the pleasure center and pump those endorphins), it’s very hard to make it let go. And in the case of music, I don’t ever want that jones to stop.

Your musical background is pretty interesting. Can’t believe you saw Richie Valens! No doubt we share some "age appropriate" music tastes. I left out a lot in my post (such things as Jimmy Hendrix, Jeff Beck, countless jazz & classical performances).

@mahgister, I, too, was an alter boy and choir boy. My love of polyphony and liturgical music began with music in the church. I’ve been to Italy 3X and saw some stupendous churches and cathedrals there, as well as in the U.S. I have zero religiosity: all I want from religion are the buildings and the music. As for J.S. Bach, I could live on a diet of nothing but and die happy. I listen to his music ~12 hrs/day, every day.

@larsman, that’s a good plan. If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth over-doing!

@desktopguy ​​@mahgister 

I am a musical dunce when it comes to playing. My one claim to fame, however, is that I was chosen for senior chorus in 6th grade. I was a soprano (then). We sang "Inch Worm, Inch Worm, measuring the marigolds." 

I was raised in a secular household. We never went to services. I think that is why I was not biased against sacred music. I think Bach's Mass in B Minor comes straight from the heavens. Perhaps the best piece of music ever written. I had a chance to see it live in Disney Hall. We all sat down low because there were not enough people to fill the hall. Strange that so few people would want to hear such a beautiful piece of music.

"Ah, Happy Brave New World..."

Sounds like another version of the glass filled to mid-level......
Will Human music survive....?

Of course it will.  Talent will remain to introduce yet new variances and 'hooks' that tip that domino in your cortex and light up the rest of the cranium.

To believe otherwise, this soon, unleashes what you fear.

AI need's to learn and understand what Hope is...Why it's important that it never must be squelched in it's span with us.

Music is part and parcel to that Hope....
Deny? Die anyway....

Not so much into where 'serious music' has fronzen into amber...yes, wonderful.
I happen to be in This Era, error it may be.......looking at that jump off the edge.... ;)

 

@mahgister, I, too, was an alter boy and choir boy. My love of polyphony and liturgical music began with music in the church. I’ve been to Italy 3X and saw some stupendous churches and cathedrals there, as well as in the U.S. I have zero religiosity: all I want from religion are the buildings and the music. As for J.S. Bach, I could live on a diet of nothing but and die happy. I listen to his music ~12 hrs/day, every day.

I listen Bach almost everyday since my youth...

I never see Europe... The one day i was supposed to quit and travel i use the 1000 bucks to pay for my books order 50 years ago... A big order... I never quitted... But i dont regret the books order... Nothing beat a deep book which will change you life for the better  as a travel can do in some case (Not all case my friend came back very  ill ) 

@audio-b-dog 

RE: V. Morrison and "TB SHeets", @grannyring nailed it. 

You heard Mother Earth with Tracy Nelson on vocals? Great singer!  

Glad you are finding some enjoyable things on the list I sent. 

I don’t hear what I would call  "rough edges" when it comes to Strength in Numbers, though. They are all virtuosos and technically faultless. Maybe we define "rough" differently.  It’s curious that you didn’t like Winifred Horan. Here’s a taste of her regular band, Solas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGcruwhK_es

RE: "The world has been flooded with dross in all the fields of art throughout history", that's true enough but we've never had a forger as capable as AI, before. I don't worry about it creating more bad art -- I worry about it getting to the point of being able to synthesize so much about good art that it can "create" good art that cannot be differentiated from good human-created art. This is new. And I use the term "good" fully aware that it's a gross oversimplification. Perhaps "convincing' would be a better term, in this case.