How you perceive, appreciate, like, dislike music can have a lot to do with your initial exposure to that music. How you first heard it. Was it a friend that gave it to you? Did you hear it on the radio? Did you hear the band live? Did you seek it out? Was it requested to you by an internet radio station? It is the original context for your relationship with that song, and can have a great effect on how relate to that song in the future. This especially applies to times when you have never heard the type of music, and you cant immediately relate it to other music that you have heard in the past.
Sometimes, I will hear music that I really like that I found for myself. Then, when I show it to my friends that I listen to music with, their reaction can also have an effect on how I relate to the music. If they say that they like it, it validates my impression of the music. Sometimes I will show music to a friend and they say they don't like it. That makes me question why I liked it, my taste in music, and whether the song is actually good or not. Sometimes, a friend will say that they don't like the music, and it will make me not want to listen to it anymore.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
A new way of hearing music
Hello all,
Think of your favorite song. When did you first hear it? Where were you? What were you listening to it on? The radio? CD Player? Record? The internet? What was going on in your life when you heard it? Were you studying for a test in college? Was it something that you listened to while you were sick in the hospital?
All of these things contribute to the context that you know the music in, and the relationship that you have with that music. For someone else, that same song might have a completely different context, leading them to have a different relationship with that music. Everyone perception of music is different, and it all has to do with the context that you listen or listened to the music in.
My name is Stephen, and I am a musician and music fan for life. This has been a recurring theme that has come up in many different ways as I contemplate our musical world. I am starting this as a forum to let these thoughts extend past my own mind, and for you to read, contemplate, and respond if you would like.
I am listening to House of Cards by Radiohead right now on an internet radio station. It makes me think of being in my best friend from college's room, and also riding in the passenger seat of my girlfriends car when we first started dating. These are both great thoughts. I enjoy the thoughts more than the actual music.
Later
-S
Think of your favorite song. When did you first hear it? Where were you? What were you listening to it on? The radio? CD Player? Record? The internet? What was going on in your life when you heard it? Were you studying for a test in college? Was it something that you listened to while you were sick in the hospital?
All of these things contribute to the context that you know the music in, and the relationship that you have with that music. For someone else, that same song might have a completely different context, leading them to have a different relationship with that music. Everyone perception of music is different, and it all has to do with the context that you listen or listened to the music in.
My name is Stephen, and I am a musician and music fan for life. This has been a recurring theme that has come up in many different ways as I contemplate our musical world. I am starting this as a forum to let these thoughts extend past my own mind, and for you to read, contemplate, and respond if you would like.
I am listening to House of Cards by Radiohead right now on an internet radio station. It makes me think of being in my best friend from college's room, and also riding in the passenger seat of my girlfriends car when we first started dating. These are both great thoughts. I enjoy the thoughts more than the actual music.
Later
-S
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