....it is to be experienced and felt. The word "experience" to me represents something felt that is pervasive and through and through, felt by the complete being, not necessarily multi-sensory based, but with a sense of wholeness and deep satisfaction. The words "listen" and "hear" also apply to AR's music for me at the initial stages, but they do not adequately describe what is ultimately felt, since his music is so emotionally deep and ambient filled, instrumentally multilayered, and sonically multi-dimensional
There's music that we just listen and hear on a cursory level, not necessarily negating likeability, and then there's music that takes the next leap into enabling us to feel and experience. It behooves us to be open to this experience without cynicism or pre-supposition and pre-judgement. A cursory listen to AR's music in most instances to me is an opportunity missed. At the end of the day, you will either like or not like a song, but the opportunity to experience the music on a deeper level must present itself since the deeper, more experience rich based ingredients are almost always there in AR's music. Hence, the frequent pattern of multiple exposures correlating with greater likeability.
