Pure musical experience cannot be reduced to acoustic and psycho-acoustic experience...
But there is a rightful way to do it though, and we can assert that in some perspective, we could try to submit music experience to science...If we respect the irreducible quality of music experience when we study it...
In the same way EVIL cannot be a study matter for science, because for many materialist scientist qualities dont exist "per se" they are secondary illusions, like music experience which is a lived quality which can be put aside at the end as secondary...
Evil is not even recognized by science save in psychiatric science only few decades ago: psychopathology...
From all corners of social activities we are conditioned to take for real what is measurable technically speaking...All the rest did not count much...
All the rest go with the baby in the muddied waters...
Nietszche wrote his quote at the supreme moment where materialism was ascending to his peak, at this time man was owning a "soul" again, and REMEMBERED IT, even if his soul was at risk to be lost ... We live after materialism , in the age of a technological religion, where there is no more "soul" or anything to be lost...
People are conditioned to listen to their idols who speak to them directly by the miracle of technology : computer, virtual reality,cars, audio system,.... People own their idols and gods and they are like slaves praying to their perfectly designed slaves-idols...
The crisis in audio reflect perfectly the world crisis...Educated mass ignorance at the service of corporations small or big...
Knowledge is reduced to science and at the end science is reduced to only technology...
Nietszche quote seems even a "naive" statement by a romantic deluded too religious man...
But i am optimist: the actual world crisis is the defining moment in all human history...
I know than men will awake in a way or in another way....Death dont exist only corpses exist...
I will now go listen to some therapeutic music in my dedicated room, waiting to be imprisoned perhaps or waiting to pay for a fine in money because i am not vaccinated in this Canadian sleepwalking country...
I live in Orwellian age...I never think young that Orwell could be a prophet like Blake was or biblical prophets...I was naive and i thought that democracy will reign supreme here forever over "communists"evil....I was very deluded....I read too much books at a young age not paying any attention to the world TILL NOW...
Nietszche was right only the man who already own a spirit can own even books without undermining himself at the end...
What is spirit?
It is freedom....
Freedom is the seed, the root, the fruit and the flower of spirit in pure love....