Ahh, the subject of music. Well guys let me tell you, being the kind of sound guy that I am (and given that every music in the end is just certain patterns of or patented arrangements of sounds according to a more or less musically ethical way) plus having a generally very broad spectrum of music that I like to listen to, I recently tried a thoughts experiment on myself and here it goes:
I actually consciously asked myself what exactly it is that I really like about certain music tracks once I listen to them for the first time and then spontaneously decide “This track is a great music track”. And yes, in the end I did come up with quite a simple recipe that applies to me personally.
Whenever I listen to a new music track for the first time there is something of a what I would call “ramp rise effect” happening on my judgement of the track in question.
Elaboration: During the first say 10 seconds listening to it with its beats harmonies chords and so on and so forth I tend to go like: “Yeah, not too bad…” then continuing listening for another roughly fifteen to twenty seconds I tend to go like: “Actually, this is pretty good/cool” and then around about a minute in I finally go like:
“Wow, brilliant/amazing (or whatever similar)!”
Ok, now that applies to me so I don’t know about you lot how you would handle that first listening experience, but to me it just came all of a sudden to be a universally valid pattern. And it applies to (almost) any kind of genre of music that I listen to except maybe that very-easy-listening-chart-like-stuff of nowadays’ everyday ordinary mainstream radio stations or minimal techno style music which in my point of view is just too “flat” for me (as in lack of musical ambitions; or figuratively speaking the “ramp” upwards effect wouldn’t simply be steep enough for me).
To a large part this is most probably due to my former in depth musical education from my school years (including music composing knowledge of harmony etc.) and the additional fact being that I am a musical person myself having played the guitar for quite a long time. And I just know about grooves rhythms and any harmonies and what usual effects they tend to have on the person listening to them especially even more so when the person knows about them and therefore also knows how to appreciate them.
This is also known as “musical analytical listening behavior”. But then (usually a bit later in the game as in once a person knows a music track for either a short or longer time) there is a recognition factor kicking in, triggering the so-called “musical associative listening behavior”, as one can either associate this particular music track to either a pleasant experience that you had whilst the song happened to play in the background or the more obvious and classic example of this being the soundtrack of a great movie that you like for instance…
In case you might be more interested in the whole subject of how music can have an effect on people, then you might want to read about “musical psychology” (ie. on wikipedia) and learn a bit more about it there.
As for myself in a concluding summary I have to say: Generally I couldn’t ever imagine my life without music especially the kind of music that I turned out to like in the way that I described above.
I'd rather die a natual death with a clear MGTOW conscience somewhere off the grid than one within "modern" civilisation with a big stress mark on my forehead and a couple of dozen tubes plugged into my body. Back to the plantation..? Me..? Hey, literally: I won't ever fucking kid myself...YZERLMNTSIC
Killmandrill 3 years, 7 months ago.
