Absinthe.
Critical listening and altered states
Ok, this is not a question about relaxing, but about listening to evaluate how the system (or a piece of gear is sounding).
What, in your experience, are the pluses and minuses of altering your state of mind for listening? This can include anything you've used to affect your everyday state of mind, from coffee, beer, scotch, tobacco, to much stronger — and psychoactive, dissociative — additives.
What do you gain by altering your consciousness in terms of what you notice, attend to, linger on, etc?
What causes more details to emerge?
What allows you to stick with a thread or, alternately, make new connections?
Or perhaps you like to keep all those things *out* of your listening; if that's you, please say a bit about why.
What, in your experience, are the pluses and minuses of altering your state of mind for listening? This can include anything you've used to affect your everyday state of mind, from coffee, beer, scotch, tobacco, to much stronger — and psychoactive, dissociative — additives.
What do you gain by altering your consciousness in terms of what you notice, attend to, linger on, etc?
What causes more details to emerge?
What allows you to stick with a thread or, alternately, make new connections?
Or perhaps you like to keep all those things *out* of your listening; if that's you, please say a bit about why.
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Y'all are having way too much of funs... Letting the cat out of Schrödinger's and replaced with an intensely chocolate heart attack major slice of cake came to this knotty coil last night. Tempting, but not wanting to get into the 'having v. potential of consumption'.... Ah, Sound...immerse oneself into a pool of it....*S* ;) Not to all's tastes, no doubt...keeps the dust off the drivers.... |
I can’t argue with this but I’m confused about how "absorption" relates to "altered states as related to what @hilde45 stated at the beginning of the thread:
In other words, can one evaluate a system's sonics while in an altered state that is not absorption? |
Musical absorption is being in altered states of consciousness. As I posted above in the words of AI. "In essence, musical absorption is a fascinating phenomenon where music can profoundly alter an individual’s state of consciousness, creating a unique blend of heightened attention, emotional response, and a sense of being transported to another realm. " |
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