music related thoughts wastebin

[mochi]

there's something intradasting about inner city's big fun and good life with how they both have sounds that are still fairly modern but are used to make dated formulaic 80s pop

 

[MagicHour]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1850279647864336621

 

[depth]

Some easy listening

 

[MagicHour]

 

[SowiesoGroyp]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1854499156775096814

zoomers are responsible for massively overrating (c)rap like kenny lamar and danny brown though

rym charts were Whiter 10 years ago

 

[SowiesoGroyp]

i find that classical music is more enjoyable when you are able to play it aloud from speakers and fill the room with it.

 

[SowiesoGroyp]

i find that classical music is more enjoyable when you are able to play it aloud from speakers and fill the room with it.

^mostly referring to symphonies and romantic music.

impressionism is more intimate and inward and better with headphones.

idk why but i love posting this upload of pajaro triste in particular because of the cute low quality bird stock image.
the way he plays the piano at about the 58 second mark is painfully, heartachingly beautiful...

 

[SowiesoGroyp]

sorrowful bird

 

[SowiesoGroyp]

in my consideration of the finest music (using the word "fine" very specifically here, but i don't feel like explaining it right now), the mode of listening (feeling of sound, sound-space, sound delivery, sound environment, volume) is always a key consideration. since this can't be imparted to you as-conceived-of (with the artist's intentions), it's entirely up to you to find and determine, so it's kind of strange that this aspect of the listening experience is so rarely commented upon. how we listen to music affects our experience of it, but people treat music very frivolously and will just play it from a bluetooth speaker while they take a shower or play it in the car and consider this equivalent to listening to it intently in a sound-restricted environment. some artists will specifically say if their music is to be played from speakers as opposed to headphones which i greatly appreciate -- even stuff that is relatively old (not from the internet era). for example: "Don't listen by headphones"

i treat the music that i love the most with such reverence and trepidation that i won't relisten to it unless i plan for the occasion and make sure i am able to finish the entire album while listening intently the entire time in the right mood. it's so rare for music to deeply and powerfully affect me that i would be diminishing the range of experience i have access to in this world by treating the greatest music poorly and frivolously, turning it into popcorn, something that becomes background noise. this also makes me hesitant to even tell other people what these albums are, because i am usually not confident they'll treat them respectfully.

so many people go through life without ever truly caring about anything. it's very sad to think about.

 

[SowiesoGroyp]

i think i became so enamoured with wandelweiser/onkyokei/cagian music because fine details of sound and the auditory sensation itself have always fascinated me. (also because it's extremely radical despite being subtle and delicate)

"The most important thing for me is to make something really vertical; something spiritual, like a tower. The whole of the culture is very horizontal, it’s surface. We don’t really need it; it’s just for amusement. Art has become like TV. There’s nothing to believe in. We need something spiritual—real culture." - Taku Sugimoto

although this was before his cagian era, i thought of this just now because it makes me feel the same way pajaro triste does.