I love audio for expressive values: you get to re-experience a meaningful piece of media from the first view; leitmotifs.
I love audio for historical understanding and appreciation, separating various elements including tempo, pitch, dynamics, meter, form, color, form, and texture.
I love audio for basic or sensual reasons: background music; a distraction from strenuous or mundane tasks. One such activity includes multitudes of heavy breathing, allegro heartbeats, and clinky metals and plastics.
The ability to perceive prerecorded sound goes back a long time for me as well as probably everyone. But in the living room with the Fisher Price turntable, Mom left me alone as I wasn’t causing trouble. Later I found cassettes, which many had growing up. I still didn’t have a stereo, and it didn’t matter as mono was really 90% of music perception for me, at the time. Then finally I found Radar Love by Golden Earring.......and really the whole Moontan album and it was stereo! Oh, this is what they are talking about?
But from then on music was a style, a way to be cool, knowing what bands were hot. We judged people by the bands they were listening too. After I moved into my own place the stereo got bigger and I got a pair of Koss headphones.
It kept drawing me in, taking me to new levels. Music was so darn important and the way to hear it was secondarily important. Then after all the vinyls, I became close to the record store happening, grand central to learn about music.
But the results of sound can take you where ever you want to go. And for some reason the more real, the more emotional? The more emotional the more of a life experience it is. All by the flick of a few switches!
The ability to perceive prerecorded sound goes back a long time for me as well as probably everyone. But in the living room with the Fisher Price turntable, Mom left me alone as I wasn’t causing trouble. Later I found cassettes, which many had growing up. I still didn’t have a stereo, and it didn’t matter as mono was really 90% of music perception for me, at the time. Then finally I found Radar Love by Golden Earring.......and really the whole Moontan album and it was stereo! Oh, this is what they are talking about?
But from then on music was a style, a way to be cool, knowing what bands were hot. We judged people by the bands they were listening too. After I moved into my own place the stereo got bigger and I got a pair of Koss headphones.
It kept drawing me in, taking me to new levels. Music was so darn important and the way to hear it was secondarily important. Then after all the vinyls, I became close to the record store happening, grand central to learn about music.
But the results of sound can take you where ever you want to go. And for some reason the more real, the more emotional? The more emotional the more of a life experience it is. All by the flick of a few switches!
As someone who's living far from home, audio is like a family to me, in the sense that I can't really not have something running in the background when am working, walking down the street, sleeping, or basically doing anything. For me audio is what reminds of my family and home, it gives me feelings of comfort and keeps me company throughout my loneliness.
As someone who's living far from home, audio is like a family to me, in the sense that I can't really not have something running in the background when am working, walking down the street, sleeping, or basically doing anything. For me audio is what reminds of my family and home, it gives me feelings of comfort and keeps me company throughout my loneliness.
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