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In the Thread: Accuracy vs. Musicality (and YMMV)
Post Subject: You showed me yours, I would like to show mine....Posted by Romy the Cat on: 2/3/2026
Robin, thank you very much for your story. It is interesting.
The moment you mentioned the timing of your trumpet and your teeth events
stayed with me, because it is exactly this kind of small, concrete detail where
lived experience quietly reveals more than abstract theory ever could. If we
were not “arguing” about Bach over the internet, but instead sitting together
in a comfortable room, with a cigar and a few unhurried hours, I could probably
advocate a concept you may not yet be familiar with. In my view, the timing of
the events you describe can be meaningfully related to Carl Jung’s idea of
synchronicity—not as a hypothetical or mystical construct, but something very
practical and experiential. The deeper reasons why synchronicities occur are a
much larger conversation, and not one I want to unfold here.
To be less cryptic and to demonstrate good faith, since you showed
me yours, I would like to show mine. I would like to point out to you a video
that describes experiences like those I experienced in the last few years and
that truly exploded in my life in 2025. The video below presents the concept
accurately, even if it simplifies certain things for accessibility and comfort.
I took all above slightly further. What I find powerful in Jung is precisely
his approach to reality as something we encounter through projections. Projection is not reality itself, but reality
after it has been refracted through the prism of our consciousness. What we
experience is therefore not the world as it is, but a transformed version of
it—shaped by our inner structures, expectations, fears, and desires, and
revealing as much about the perceiver as about what is perceived.
When I began applying this distinction—between perception as
“me” and perception as projection—to other areas of life, including music,
orchestration, musical theory, interpretation, performance, subjective musician’s
interpretation, playback organization(!!!), listening perception etc. I began to discover many beautiful things,
but it was just beginning. It turned out the the same logic extended naturally
into all forms of art, science, physics, and politics, social since, and many others
from first perspective “unimaginable arias”. The key that the good doctor in my
view gave to use is the following: Anything that unsettles us—anything that
irritates, frightens, or offends us—is not simply a psychological nuisance to
be anesthetized or explained away. It is information. It is a signal that
something in our internal map of the world is misaligned, incomplete, or
naïvely held. If we resist the temptation to blame reality and instead
interrogate our own interpretation, what first appears as suffering reveals
itself as an invitation: an opportunity to refine our character, update our assumptions, and see a little more clearly how you are participating in the
construction of the world we experience.
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