Music communicates only because there is a listener who is able perceive the language. That language is learned when the listener takes an active part in living and experiencing it. As with all things, “you get what you give.”
I ran into this nice quote while reading an article titled Why Music Gives Us the Chills:
“It [...]
Archive for July 19th, 2007
A Reluctance Towards Focus: A Question of Music and Chocolate
Winter Winds
Parents' Guide
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- Artist: Josina Burgess
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- A Lever to Move the Mind
- A Plight of Autistic Adolescents
- A Reluctance Towards Focus
- A Response to ‘The Lost Impact of Modern Music’
- An Interface of Health and Technology
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- Compression and the Artist’s Message
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- Meditation and Free Association
- Meditation, Fear, and Creativity
- Meditation, Mind, and Brain
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- Music In-World and In-Game
- Naming Pieces of Music
- On Being More Childish
- Our Branching Society
- Practicing Music - Silence is Golden
- Quantum Existence in Abstractia
- Re-Mission - Gaming Towards Health
- Revisiting the Importance of Play
- Sacred Earth Review
- Technology’s Effects on Music
- The Instruments
- Three Lessons I Learned Playing “Portal”
- Time as Told in Music
- Video Games, Violence, and Emotional Development
- What Is Improvisation, and Why Practice?
- What is Meditation, and Why Is it Useful?
- Why Write Music?
