However, this is definitely not how everyone experiences music, at all. For instance, I have a very close friend of over fifty years… we experienced music together since we were 15. He thinks of himself as a musician… I am pretty sure he is imagining chord changes, wondering if it’s Martin D36, and in the acts of creating it. I don’t actually think he gets it… high end audio… although he has spent well over $40K… his system system sounds terrible. Good individual choices without a clue about system synergy… but that is another store.Very interesting...
The experience so different between you and your friend illustrate a distinction that i make :
Music embodied in sounds is not the same perspective than sound embodied in musics....( Check my use of the singular and plural grammatical mode here to convey what i want to speak about)
"Music embodied in sounds" is the way the notes of musical scores or of an improvisation are played and feeled and perceived to create a musical emotion in our soul/body....
"Sound embodied in the musics" is the acoustic information we can retrieve coming from the room/speakers and from the acoustic content of our room, through our perception of the playing orchestra or instruments sounds timbre and locations...Estimating for example what is left of the original lived event through the mixing and in spite of the recording choices, what is left to us in our listening room...
Some people are more conscious of one over the other and some other of the 2 simulatenously...
Certainly a maestro for example must be conscious of these 2 way on the same level....