Critical listening and altered states
I'm very glad for you. If it works optimally and you enjoy it fully then I don't suppose it really has any limitations. That's wonderful! And low cost! |
It’s been many decades since I listened to music stoned and back then, I had neither the interest in this hobby nor the requisite $. The music did seem to be more vivid than when I listened without "enhancements", but I was not engaged in critical assessment mode at the time. I did combine drugs with drawing and creative writing, back then, and what I typically found was that next day, the drawings and poems were not nearly as original or interesting as they’d seemed while under the influence. I tend to regard thinking as generally an either/or proposition -- dominated by either left or right brain in a given moment. This may be erroneous. I’m not a scientist. I’m trying to imagine a chemically-induced state in which one’s awareness is both freed from habitual assumptions yet still capable of reliable perceptions/judgments and I'm not able to do so. Such a state would seem more easily accomplished via meditation. But that doesn’t mean it’s not possible; simply that my experience hasn’t extended in that direction.
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Having one drink or a little more could do it, or some concomitantly small dosage of something else. Maybe we're different, but I don't shift dramatically from "reliable perceptions/judgements" to "unreliable" if the amount is carefully considered. |
No you are wrong here. If we do not enjoy any given system, most of the times it is not so much because it is a bad system "per se" ,or because it is a too much low cost one. The main reason why we enter "critical listening" mode , unable to enter in musical enjoyment, bothered by the sound, it is because a suddenly too much apparent defect break the necessary balance of acoustics factors and parameters. Then your ironical supposition about the absence of limitations of my system is wrong.... My low cost system as most system under the top very costly High end has his many specifics set of limitations, but because of the optimization of all three working factors, mechanical,electrical and especially acoustical, the balance i had is near the optimal, then no limitation act suddenly as disruptor of the musical pleasure triggering an unwanted critical listening mode... This is why acoustics gave us " altered musical consciousness" with Pot or without pot or beer... |
I listen, therefore I am. Not listening to other than rain on a metal roof.....a pleasant gray noise, versus the version not so long ago still very apparent debris being hid by the green springs... HO, as we've made our ways with the equip we have had, the senses sharp or dulled by practice made practical by the states we've been in. Impractical perception is generally more fun. ;) @hilde45 ....how about koans? I suck @ limericks.....😏🙄 |
