incredibly stunning poster to put on my, a bit expanded, lower stomach part !
I want one ...
Been in there long enough for kitty, too.... ;)
Critical listening and altered states
Ok, this is not a question about relaxing, but about listening to evaluate how the system (or a piece of gear is sounding).
What, in your experience, are the pluses and minuses of altering your state of mind for listening? This can include anything you've used to affect your everyday state of mind, from coffee, beer, scotch, tobacco, to much stronger — and psychoactive, dissociative — additives.
What do you gain by altering your consciousness in terms of what you notice, attend to, linger on, etc?
What causes more details to emerge?
What allows you to stick with a thread or, alternately, make new connections?
Or perhaps you like to keep all those things *out* of your listening; if that's you, please say a bit about why.
What, in your experience, are the pluses and minuses of altering your state of mind for listening? This can include anything you've used to affect your everyday state of mind, from coffee, beer, scotch, tobacco, to much stronger — and psychoactive, dissociative — additives.
What do you gain by altering your consciousness in terms of what you notice, attend to, linger on, etc?
What causes more details to emerge?
What allows you to stick with a thread or, alternately, make new connections?
Or perhaps you like to keep all those things *out* of your listening; if that's you, please say a bit about why.
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Music is already an ASC and cannot be unheard going deep in us... Playing with sound parameters in a room imply an ASC... Do you know the Barabar site in India ? Nobody knows who did it, the precision is impossible to replicate today, and the caves were probably used as an acoustic tool to create ASC... This stunning documentary is one of the best i had seen recently and say a lot : BARABAR, THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF THE FUTUREThis 2 hours is amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF6qv1CC5_4&t=3s But if you want a short introduction : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nGnA0ZrwEk
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@12many By the way, I like your handle – clever! Agree that what is heard gets incorporated. I agree with others that music is an ASC. (I mean, what isn't an ASC given certain definitions? That's a rhetorical question, FWIW.) The point of my question (which is not as fun as what others are bringing up, so it's all good) is how do we break out of "ruts" in the way we are presently analyzing our systems? So many people on the forum seem stuck about what to do next, and they look for advice about gear, etc. But one could change a thousand things, and so the problem comes back to how we break out of our larger perspective. An ASC had long ago is of little help, as it has already become routine in our present habit. A new ASC has the potential to shake up present habits, provide an analytical clue, and lead to experimentation with the system or room with greater potential. |
Music experience is a perpetual ASC : as a trance hypnosis, or a spiritual awakenings... What we listen to affect us and our body and it is not just a matter of taste but a matter of education about music and about knowledge... The way to suppress a stressful experience with our audio system is not a new ASC but simple information about what matters in installation of audio system... Acoustics basic knowledge (not a new ASC ) comes first, and acoustics is way more bigger than just room acoustic.. Or we can listen our music without being bother by a sound quality that matter not much for most of us for sure... But for me and many others, a minimal acoustical satisfaction threshold is necessary to forget the system and enter in the music experience as ASC , not just an ASC as trance hypnosis but time to times a spiritual awakenings.
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