Can confirm my new MacBook is light-years better than my 2015 MacBook.
Well none of this should be happening really, but when I say music as meditation, you’ve interpreted it as “put on some music and try to meditate,” which is not what I mean at all. Definitely don’t do that. Forget meditation because you seem to have some weird affect with it. The way you become not distracted is by being fully distracted by the music, which is to say there are no phones, computer screens, TVs that can interfere. You are escaping to a world that has no sight and only sound and just listening to the music for pure pleasure, and the rest falls into place. You don’t have to “do” anything.
That is certainly better than most laptops yet still very far from optimal for serious music listening.
Trying to focus on one thing like music is like meditation for me. That was the point I was making. My mind will immediately wander and I’ll forget I’m listening to music. Maybe that’s ok.
Which activities do not cause your mind to wander?
Scuba diving, super hard exercise or exercising while listening to an audio book (unless that’s technically wandering), seeing a really good movie, being immersed in programming.
That’s about all I can think of.
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So you’ve never put on an album you like and listened to it all the way through without doing anything else? Because to me, that’s like watching a good movie with my ears and a great way to escape / relax. Composing / performing music necessarily requires 100% of my attention but it’s not really relaxing in the sense that I can turn off my brain.
I haven’t listened to an album all the way through since the mid-90s.
Loooool fucking hell
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Well that’s not 100% accurate. I’ve put CDs on in my car a few times. I just don’t listen to music that way around the house. And in my car I usually have a big ipod playlist on random shuffle.
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The album is one of the major casualties of the streaming era, so actually wouldn’t surprise me if not too many people haven’t listened to an album proper in years. It’s an unfortunate outcome because I maintain that the album is–or can be–an art form unto itself, and I don’t think it would be at all controversial to claim that there are albums where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts (although the opposite can also be true).
Of course it is. A lot of time and effort is put into choosing and even sequencing the tracks. It’s akin to an art exhibition where the whole usually aims to achieve an effect greater than the sum.
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I don’t listen to albums a lot anymore, but yeah, they are/were a good thing and you know, if you hear Good Times Bad Times on the radio it feels wrong that the next song isn’t Babe I’m Gonna Leave You and it’s ridiculous when they carve out a piece of Dark Side of the Moon.
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Who are we sending our picks to?
pyatnitski
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Sent. That was fun. I had a really hard time with the anthem one. I don’t feel good about it.
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Oh yeah - for a general idea of my musical tastes this section of grab bag walrus that I judged might also help. Sorry should have posted sooner. Tilted if you need to tweak your entry that’s fine.
Nah. I probably lost but I really like my songs and hope you enjoy them as well!
Might need wait for a bit of time off during my break though. Got a few already filled but gotta find more time.
EDIT: Do 2 and 4 have to be a band or can it be a solo artist?
Anything can be band or solo artist. I will edit to say artist, not band.