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What do you feel?

A friend who caught a bit of the audio bug from me asked me what I felt when I listened to music. I was taken back by the question because I didn’t know. I told him that I was relaxed when I listened to music. I didn’t think that was a good answer but I couldn’t think of any other. After a few days I came to the conclusion that I what I often feel is a sense of gratitude when I listened to music. I feel gratitude to be hearing the performance so well. It is if I was rich and had the best musicians in the past and present to perform at my pleasure.

What do you feel?

Bob
rsimms
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kijanki
3,575 posts
 
"After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own."

Oscar Wilde
foster_9
1,610 posts
 
Too often I get into critical listening and what I feel is not what I should be feeling.
uru975
684 posts
 
Everything else in my life, my awareness disappears and I am enveloped and move along with the music. The moment, the music, the awareness of it are all one. That is of course on a good night or day. Sometimes it is only background or wallpaper. Sigh!
spinaker01
293 posts
 
The Oscar Wilde comment is amazing! Most times, music is a constant backdrop to my day to day life, but others times a mood modifying/uplifting/introspective experience. I remember clearly the first time I heard Barber's Adagio For Stings on a really good system. The music picked me up and carried me away mentally to some other place (almost out of body) and when it ended, the reverb trail of the last note made me feel an inexplicable sense of loss, almost an abandonment that the journey was over. Hard to explain but these moments are what makes all the obsessing worth the effort.
mrtennis
3,295 posts
 
music appeals to the head or the heart.

i find some music a catalyst to thinking and problem solving, while other music appeals to the emotions.
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