We listen sound with a very short conscious memory span....
It is impossible to remember a sound from few minutes ago sometimes and comparing it in our conscious usual memory with another sound on the spot...(But for sure a trained musician learn how to recognize a chord for example, but there is more to sound than tone names and timbre is not a mere addition of frequencies anyway )
But our body/soul own a memory more intimately linked to emotions which will surge anew from our body, after some past experience, if the same sound or part of it is recreated.... They are engrammed in our emotional history ready to be born again...
Then for me learning to listen was learning to spontaneously listen to my own soul/body reaction, not only to the sound with the working conscious effort to judge it....In the first case i remember or i know what the sound is by his way of living inside me... In the second case i dont remember nor can i recall either my emotion anyway...A recalled emotion is no more an emotion...An image is not the territory....
We listen with our body and not only that, we listen with all our own body histories.... It is why Alzheimer people regain part of their life with music....It is the reason why rythm is so evidently an experience of the body not of the EARS/brain only....
For me there is not "sound" at my left and "music" at my right, but only one experience....They are completely distinguished without never being separated....And learning for human living animal and soul is most of the time learning to distinguish phenomenon without separating or isolating them apart...Goethe was the great master in this art and science...
«Sound is a body's echo, like on a mountain» - A horn player from the Swiss alps
«Do you mean that your body is another mountain?»- Groucho Marx 🤓
It is impossible to remember a sound from few minutes ago sometimes and comparing it in our conscious usual memory with another sound on the spot...(But for sure a trained musician learn how to recognize a chord for example, but there is more to sound than tone names and timbre is not a mere addition of frequencies anyway )
But our body/soul own a memory more intimately linked to emotions which will surge anew from our body, after some past experience, if the same sound or part of it is recreated.... They are engrammed in our emotional history ready to be born again...
Then for me learning to listen was learning to spontaneously listen to my own soul/body reaction, not only to the sound with the working conscious effort to judge it....In the first case i remember or i know what the sound is by his way of living inside me... In the second case i dont remember nor can i recall either my emotion anyway...A recalled emotion is no more an emotion...An image is not the territory....
We listen with our body and not only that, we listen with all our own body histories.... It is why Alzheimer people regain part of their life with music....It is the reason why rythm is so evidently an experience of the body not of the EARS/brain only....
For me there is not "sound" at my left and "music" at my right, but only one experience....They are completely distinguished without never being separated....And learning for human living animal and soul is most of the time learning to distinguish phenomenon without separating or isolating them apart...Goethe was the great master in this art and science...
«Sound is a body's echo, like on a mountain» - A horn player from the Swiss alps
«Do you mean that your body is another mountain?»- Groucho Marx 🤓