music = life
when we hear music::
>to kill time (in queues in the post office, waiting for someone) :: we do not only listen to but we make music too. we sometimes unconsciously start tapping on something or ourselves and as soon as we notice music is being made, rhythms flow out of our gestures into our body and the closest objects.
>in the gym / physical works :: musical rhythmic structures help and enforce rhythmic body work. beware the music selection..
>cooking/relaxing/reading :: multi-sensory stimulation doesn't mean data overflow! while doing several relaxing/enjoyable tasks using multi-sensory stimulation will potentiate the desired effects (e.g. relaxing while hearing music, reading/cooking and tasting a good wine?!).
>while travelling (by car, train, airplane...), is the transportation experience stimulated when combined with music? Is this situation prolific to musical escapism and mind wondering?
>there's something about combining a soundtrack to our pleasure moments. a tendency in creating an association between the moment and musical experience.
>music as a tool to time travel, some times music is experienced whith such passion that ca create timstamps. later in the future listening to that music can take us back in time.
why do we listen to music in the train, while shopping or in the streets? are we only entertaining ourselves or are we searching other landscapes to run away to?
music + escapism = hedonism ?!
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off-topic but...
playlists = long are the times that playlists filed a k-7 tape, recordings lasted 60-90 mins, a few dozens of songs carefully selected and mindfully sequenced a piece of magnetic tape. nowadays with digital formats and hd-based players, playlists become a huge collection of albums, the building proccess jumped from a music-by-music selection to data-dumpsters of whole albums, disregarding the individual musics and album construction to a whole piece. The lack of time in our lives and the digital technology also brought us the wonder of skipping allowing us to build our selections on the moment.