And another thing...<WARNING: WAAAAAY OT BLOVIATING> I'm no Buddhist, but lately I have been trying to think through a theory of what would constitute "mindful" listening. This isn't easy for me as I have trouble differentiating between "preference" and "judgment".
When listening to music, I find that I have a hard time giving up certain personal preferences: I prefer to listen to musical performances that are contextually "in tune" and performed with good ensemble (i.e. "together") and with some transparency of texture (i.e so I can hear all the parts...I'm a "more is more" kind of guy) and that also possessing of some hard-to-quantify "other" element, which, for lack of a better term, I'll call "interpretation", and which, for me, I think is really about "coherency". My shorthand for this, and a term seemingly laden with judgment, is a "good" performance. So, given a "good" performance, isn't it my job, as a struggling-to-be-mindful listener, to try and strip away all the rest of my prejudices and expectations so as to bring "fresh ears" to the performance? And yet, isn't most western classical music all about the creation, denial and ultimate fulfillment of expectation? (E.g. Mozart "works" for us because he is so clever at setting up multiple layers of "ahas!" for us.) To me, this poses something of a paradox. </BLOVIATING> -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41824 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
