Please help me to define diagnosis of the following illness.

The best cure for music is music as emotion not as mere pleasant sound...

I figured for myself, without knowing if it is true for everyone, that the music i like a lot i listen to it more than 25 times in a short amount of time , i speak here about an album of any style...

I listened Bach the most often all my life... I cannot count...

I listened to Schutz Geisliche chormusic 1000 times in 7 years... I counted it...It was easy it was almost each 2 days... Because of the emotion revealed by the music : enthusiasm as in its etymology : penetrated by the divine ...

I listened the sonatas of Vivaldi opus 2 one thousand times too at the same period...

These two works express a rythmic pulse that increase creativity... I used them as a drug to increase my creativity with success.. Try them...

I listened, for the same reason , enthusiasm , the Jazz guitarist album of Pat Martino : "formidable" once a week for the last year...😊

If i listen more and more an album it became a presence, no more a distraction or a leisure, but a meaning, and a reminder of this meaning... Meaning as emotion never die...

I learned how to love musicians over any styles or compositions, their playing interpretation convey the emotion in a unique way and moved me , not the style , or genre or culture, etc ...

The genre, style, has no importance if it is , jazz, classical, choral , persian, Indian , African , generally... Other genres dont attract me so much even when i like what i listen to...Pop music for example...

It is the reason why the music i learned to love more and more by an habit which is imposed on me and not so much chosen by me, where the emotion is NEVER lost matter the more... It became a sacred listening...

In casual listening i explore and appreciate but most of what i appreciated a few times will never become a "sacred listening", a listening which will be mandatory then "sacred" , each week or each month, or one time or two a year after a long period of multiple listenings...

Some music change us and became a part of ourself , most other pieces of music is only fun leisure for a short time...

Sometimes through accident i stumble to a new ectasy....It is what i look for...I am never tired of a musical ectasy, repetition cannot kill it... Without these sacred ectasy i will not listening music much...

I listened at least 500 times the 8th book of madrigals of Monteverdi by Miroslav Venhoda... I dont know how and why i pick this version and not the other books among all others , i think that it was because it is the one which appear more  as a spontaneous improvisation for me... it is easy to count the number of times , i listened to it 50 years, 10 times a year... At least...

 

I will give you an example:

I listened to this album at least 100 times or perhaps 150 or 200, it suggest adoration and ectasy in prayer , it is very powerful each time i hear it, the same emotion without fail and no tiredness impose on me...It will ressuscitate the dead, as the allegretto of the 7 th symphony of Beethoven can do it for example  each time ... Try them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p7KccSKDfY&t=2038s

That is my experience...Finally i dont like sound nor music so much, but some emotions conveyed in some music by some musicians... And i look for ectasy because ectasy last, fun do not last....

If you cannot stop a piece of music once it play, the first and the thousandth time, it is the one...

My best to you....

 

 

I too often focus on one artist or composer at a time, listening to nothing else for maybe a week at a time. That makes for a deep dive into what it is the artist/composer was all about.

I think it's called shitmusictastetiosis.

@czarivey  LOL!  I jest of course. 

I go through a similar phase. It's just getting your fill of a particular song, album, piece of music, genre...then when you're satisfied you switch. 

Unless an individual's collection is of one genre...

@czarivey 

For God's sake, I don't think that it is an illness. Your listening habits and preferences are guided by you instincts and your drive. Your "mono" whatever is taking you where you want to go. Follow the journey. Don't second guess it. I initially thought your post was kind of crazy. But, in hindsight, it's not crazy at all. It's your musical journey. Enjoy the ride and embrace!! 

@mahgister 

I am always in awe of your words and wisdom. Thanks for your such soul driven perceptions. One comment I wanted to totally agree with you on:  "but some emotions conveyed in some music by some musicians, and I look for ecstasy because ecstasy lasts, fun do not last"

In the early 70's, BIRDS OF FIRE, the title cut from John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra changed my life. It was the birth of early jazz fusion that hit my soul and heart like a drug. It was something that drew me out of body. I was around 14 years old then. I am 65 now, and when I hear that song I still feel the power, the spirit and the ecstasy that I felt so many years ago. Such a permeation into to the fabric of my life that will only die when I do.

 

 

I sometimes go through phases, right now I am not listening to any Classical or Jazz, although I like those genre's just fine and will hop on those bandwagons for months at a time. 

The only genre that seems to only last a few albums is Death Metal, although when I get in the mood, the house rocks.

I think what you are experiencing is normal behavior and probably does not need any medication - unless you want to....

@deadhead1000  Which death metal albums?

I like St Germain's Boulevard album.

@czarivey....*S*  You're fine, we all have our phases 'n phrases to play thru... ;)

I'm not a doctor, but I can look, act, and chat like one....in this circumstance:

"Take 2 Thorazine and don't call me in the morning....I'll bill you later...."

Semi-seriously...I like EDM, trance, and sim when I'm deep into work, or what I try to pass off as such.  Into the day, driving or just being driven to distract, 'odd rock' with a decent bass line to combat the 'boomers' (Not 'us', generationally....the bass buggys with the multi-subs, busily trying to loosen all the hardware holding the vehicle together....  "HEY!  IT'S CALLED PERMATEX!  TRY SOME!"  *jez...*  )

Sitting around, wasting network nanosec by the billions, whatever catches my ears and what little mind is left to snatch....

From the sweet:...and a end to the means...;)
...through to blatant.......been there...did that...do it now on ...request?! *LOL*
....like Lotus...like hillclimb contests = light+hp+handling yields loud zoom

....and, ultimately, Why......rockin' thru the wilder mess...

...to a soundtrack.......amongst many...

*S*  I'm not an udder phobic of the classics or the past, 

just borne of a different era, knowing what was, what is, and listening to where it's up to and going.....

 

...but, anyway....🤷‍♂️