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In the Thread: How to train respect audio listening?

Post Subject: Gazing between the Macondo chennals?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/24/2013

Actually I would be very much disappointed if we develop a relationship that would require sending signals that would make us to leave each other f. alone. I could perfectly comfortable in this setting with recursive girlfriends but I do not feel that it is wonderful to have with a wife. Amy is not a wife but she is the supper wife and she might be mesmerizingly fascinating as a listening partner. This however is not always applied to audio listening and I think that the reason is in a very low level of general culture that not-audio people have when they consume playback listening events.

When I for a first time went to Amy’s quartet readings I did not behave properly. In my life I am accustomed to Milstein, Elman and Francescatti play and I am not accustomed to hear how semi-armatures play music. So, the first time I heard it I spoke, between the movement and after the pay. Spoke and they were not happy about it. If the context of my talk is open for debate but what is not debatable was that I broke the rule of the house: in their world the quest does not talk during the readings. I was uninformed about it and after I was asked I behave differently during those events.

So, they do have some own custom how they would like to consume own musical consumption, so do we in audio. The people who consider good listening companions do not run to restroom during opening of Mahler’s Urlicht, do not use the adagio from Tchaikovsky 5 to BBQ pork chops and do read iPad during Bruckner because “nothing is happening”. It is fine to do all those things if you want to do those thing but it need to be untested that if your objective is in fact to listen music then listening is a full time ceremony and it shell not be share with anything else. When we listen we are in more or less selected location and listening is more or less meditative possess, not different then it is in a concert hall.

We have a phenomenal listening sessions with Amy. Once we woke at 3AM and developed eager for Mahler 2. So, we right there were listening my wonderful Tanglewood recording, the whole symphony, at full volume and Amy “behaved” absolutely dreamy. I still remember that feeling that I had and was laughing about the famous quote by Saint-Exupery that love is not gazing at each other but gazing in the same direction…. Why those listening experiences could not be invoked again and again?

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