Just another Orange fuse thread

There are those who appreciate art, and those who do not. This applies to the art of music as well.

Millercarbon’s excellent essay above reminded me of a trip I took to the fabulous Getty Museum of Art in Los Angeles. Here, you can see spectacular paintings and sculptures by the true masters of the past.

I was accompanied on the trip with my brother and one of our best childhood friends. My brother and I had to stop and admire each painting, paying close attention to the colors, how the artist played with light, and the subtle brush strokes, and then discuss each painting. We spent several minutes, to even twenty minutes and longer, to admire each work of art. Our friend, on the other hand, could hardly wait to get to the next exhibit, and then on to the food court.

Art has to be appreciated not only with the eyes but with the soul as well. Music is no different, it too, in order to be appreciated to its fullest, must be listened to with the soul. Once that is realized, then we have learned what to listen for.

To the naysayers on this site, all I have to say is ... The food court is out that door, down the hall, and to the left.

Frank

The Revenge of the Nerds Pt. 3 

As Millercarbon stated too many people don’t know how to listen. That  not only applies to music ,their stereos but others as well. When I go to a business meeting with people I am not too familiar with I watch to see who are the talkers and who are the listeners. When they do talk a large portion of the best ideas come from the listeners.
Unfortunately there are people who have not only lack  listening skills they don’t even know how to communicate properly, they just rant . I like a good exchange of ideas and there are a lot of really knowledgeable people on this site that even though I might not agree with everything they state , I do listen.

Thanks and if you search out and read my review of the Blue fuse you may notice a pretty good example of not only how to listen but "how to communicate properly" as opposed to rant.

Far from shilling the review properly states my first impression was not all that good. The sound was deeper and more dynamic, yes, but yet not quite right. It was disjointed, chaotic, wrong. Forget exactly how I put it but it was something like that. Anyway, point is it didn't sound right- and I knew it!

So I flipped it around the other way and that was it. Everything fell into place. Beautiful. 

It never has gone back the other way. Why would it? If directionality was some vague hard to be sure thing then I'd be switching back and forth till the end of time or I got tired, whichever came first. If it was some random thing I'd never be sure. Instead, I knew first, then did the switch, then left it alone because it was right.

Also I've been at pains to make clear this is not some super power I was born with. It took a long time and a lot of work to develop. Why, and how in the world did this happen? It was as simple as this: when some people said they could hear, I listened to them.

@millercarbon Very well said. Thank you!
Playing live with bands and hearing all types of live music has been very helpful for me also.

The only reason threads like this get closed down is because trolls like George go out of their way to denigrate and incite others to levels of acrimony way out of proportion to the discussion. He even rejoices in the closing of threads, bragging about it like a 10 year old. Just go back and read his rants and you'll see.

All the best,
Nonoise