The act of describing it always diminishes the experience. Yes, that applies to music as well
And that is the thing with objectivists?
Oh, wait..
The thing about objectivists is...
Listening is the essence and central activity of music appreciation. Listening is purely a result of the essential reality of subjectivity, and not that of any "objective reality" which is assumed to exist "out there." The human mind tends to rigidly cling to measurements, pedestrian concepts, and elaborate abstractions in attempt to simplify, subdivide, define, and categorize within the immensity of the realm of the experiential/subjective.
Over-reliance on concrete definitions and ideas serves to attach oneself to a sense of stability and security. The mind secretly hopes this will sufficiently ward off the uneasiness of feeling unsure, or off-balance, about one’s actual degree of comprehension regarding a given topic.
But what is it that is capable of registering sounds, recognition of patterns, recalling memory, and awareness? It’s pure subjectivity. It’s not the brain. That’s only an idea which is based on an entire system of definitions which define other definitions. The mind fortifies the boundaries of its interconnected structure by using circuitously self-reifying definitions.
Consider this: A description of a thing, proposed by the human mind, is only of that which a thing is not. A thing’s reality is not the same as its description.
What is it that is present in the pure silence during the instant just prior to sound waves propagating into the air space of the listening room? What is it which listens?
It’s subjective awareness, devoid of mental content. Your ideas aren’t listening, your experiential awareness is listening.
The more one thinks the same boring ideas one’s been thinking for years, the less one can listen. Subjectivity is the self-existent authority prior to the discernment of any quality, measured quantity, or the detection of that which we term "music". The deeper we can relax and sink into pure, silent subjectivity, the more deeply and purely we can listen and behold. Our subjective awareness becomes purer and less colored, our mind becomes more open and flexible, and experiential reality is seen to be the ever-present continuum which is of the greatest value of all.
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Is that fundamental truth something you came up with subjectively? If not, then how can you check that it's true -- with a non-subjective source? Here's a nice 3 minute clip of a very talented philosopher discussing "subjectivity" and "objectivity" especially as influenced by Kant.
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Tremendous clip of a gifted teacher speaking about many nuances conveyed in just a few minutes, @hilde45 I have only comment on the minute beginning at about 1.50. In common law this has been an ongoing theme for centuries, and continues to evolve. The rules of evidence today discount eye-witness accounts as being a truth, to the point of dismissing them without being corroborated. What did you hear, what did you see, what was said, or what did you taste, are subject to some quite fastidious cross-examination to seek the truth. |
And further to the above, related to what the woman speaks of, and in the context of what the brain perceives in the frequency domain, there have been many robust studies on this matter over many decades.
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