In Reply to: Experience not intellect posted by Tadlo on March 12, 2011 at 05:40:02:
And hearing live performances from time to time is key. There is something about the actual, physical gesture of music making that helps one understand things that are hard to "hear" in recordings. The timing of the decision to break silence, the way the sound breaks open and tears at the air, the sense of living people trying to meld mind with music, the physical struggle to engage the acoustic space in a meaningful way, the muscular responses and emotional expressions of the players, etc.., - these things all work to "fill in the dots". Without the information provided by human bodies in real space, it is hard to understand music.
Edits: 03/13/11
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- I tend to agree. - genungo 04:17:34 03/13/11 (0)