very interesting question
i spend a huge proportion of my time listening to and thinking/talking about music,but i have no real understanding of how it works whatsoever-i basically hear it as pure sound
i mean i know what a guitar sounds like (sometimes) and what the rhythm is and so on,but i dont know anything about notes,chord sequences,etc
but a lot of people i talk to who have some formal of understanding of music assume i do to based on my enthusiasm,and are amazed i get so much out of music without understanding it...
people even refuse to believe i dont know complicated musical theory and insist on talking to me as if i did sometimes...
aphex twin provides an interesting example of ways of hearing music-i went through a phase of listening to sawII nearly constantly a while ago,and was playing it for a mate of mine who had neverf heard it...
i knew there was something special about the album in that there was loads of music like it but nothing quite like it,if you know what i mean,but i couldnt explain what it was
my mate heard it and instantly started analysing it in terms of sequences of notes,tones.half tones,and various other terms i didnt understand...
anyway,he seemed to be as impressed as i was,but for different reasons (or the same reasons expressed differently i suppose)
so yeah,i get a lot out of music,but i never really know why...
i also think sawII is orange by the way,or at least part s of it
it might be to do with the cover-i associate loveless visually with the colours on the cover
i spend a huge proportion of my time listening to and thinking/talking about music,but i have no real understanding of how it works whatsoever-i basically hear it as pure sound
i mean i know what a guitar sounds like (sometimes) and what the rhythm is and so on,but i dont know anything about notes,chord sequences,etc
but a lot of people i talk to who have some formal of understanding of music assume i do to based on my enthusiasm,and are amazed i get so much out of music without understanding it...
people even refuse to believe i dont know complicated musical theory and insist on talking to me as if i did sometimes...
aphex twin provides an interesting example of ways of hearing music-i went through a phase of listening to sawII nearly constantly a while ago,and was playing it for a mate of mine who had neverf heard it...
i knew there was something special about the album in that there was loads of music like it but nothing quite like it,if you know what i mean,but i couldnt explain what it was
my mate heard it and instantly started analysing it in terms of sequences of notes,tones.half tones,and various other terms i didnt understand...
anyway,he seemed to be as impressed as i was,but for different reasons (or the same reasons expressed differently i suppose)
so yeah,i get a lot out of music,but i never really know why...
i also think sawII is orange by the way,or at least part s of it
it might be to do with the cover-i associate loveless visually with the colours on the cover