I admire Miles Davis, i admire Stravinsky; but i loved Chet Baker and Scriabin...You?
This is an example of an interesting list thanks gardners501 LIKING is related to the brain and the admiration is justified by an a posteriori reflexion...It is related to the fact that some composers ask in us for an adaptation who made ourself able to taming them... LOVING is related to the heart and the emotion is spontaneous and direct without a posteriori analysis... It is this way because emotions contains an a priori analysis... Pascal: " the heart has his reasons that the reason ignore". Then we must look at your list if we want to know you and comparing your intellectual and emotional motivated choices.... I bet people now begins to understand why a list pondered by the polarities of the heart and brain is very instructive and said to us something which pertain to the character of the person who has chosen the list more clearly than just a linear list.... We can then imagine ourself listening to a composer with the perspective given to us by an other who like or love a specific composer... If we do that it is helping us to relativize our own choices and then we learn something about ourself too... This is the OBJECTIVE REASON for my thread....Not imposing my tastes.... 😌Or not for other to impose their tastes... Behind my thread is a real question.... |
I love Stravinsky. My dad always thought his stuff sounded ugly, but that didn't stop him from giving me a Petroushka mono LP when I was about ten (around 1960). The orchestra was the ultra-obscure Cento Soli of Paris. It was on a budget label. I'll bet he got it for free. Anyway, it took several plays for me to make hide-or-hair of it but it wasn't long before I loved it and was singing along with it. I took it to my sixth grade class on Share Your Favorite Record Friday. Naturally, everybody hated it. |
**** I bet people now begins to understand why a list pondered by the polarities of the heart and brain is very instructive and said to us something which pertain to the character of the person who has chosen the list more clearly than just a linear list....**** At the risk of showing arrogance, from my first post here: **** Important to give enough relevance to the simple fact that the distinctions made often say much more about ourselves as music lovers (and possibly in other ways as well) and less about the artists in any absolute sense. **** Four notes; just four notes of absolute perfection following the dreamy and mysterious introduction. Not the kind of perfection that appeals to the brain only, but perfection of clarity in musical intent and attitude conveying surprise, purpose and, of course, swing. He makes the heart swing. How can one not love Miles? Just me. https://youtu.be/tguu4m38U78 |
Yes the part about ourself is the first aspect, but the invitation to change ourself, if someone like you interrogate my love in this case for Chet Baker is the key part of my initial question... Now reading you, saying what you said, and thinking what i think about Chet, it will be interesting for me to listen at the first occasion Miles' music and reconsiderating my "liking" without for sure imposing nothing artificial on myself, just listening with an open minds... Revisiting ourself is an exercise in consciousness... Thanks to make me able and tempted to do so... My best to you and my deep salutation to Miles.... |
