After a while it’s just sounds.


I find myself lately listening for spectacular sounding recordings ( as per my last post regarding the Alpine Symphony.) After a while I noticed that all  I was listening for was just great sound  in my listening sessions.  And the sounds started sounding like weird noises devoid of meaning, even on my most beloved recordings. 
This brings up the point of how we listen to music, and the attitude we bring to it.  If we just listen for sounds the meaning disappears, and we’re left with disjunct noises making no sense. Not very enjoyable.

Thank the heavens, after realizing this I started listening for the meaning of the music and broke out of it. 
Does this happen to you?

rvpiano

If you were a concert pianist then it sounds like you are in a state of depression that smears the joy of your sensory perceptions.

It's something thats happened to me so I am speaking albeit from one man's experience.When I am unsettled about the world and its humans doing incalculabley horrible things to each other and nature my taste for music and my ability to derive joy from it wanes and becomes just notes.Just a thought.