Well written AJ, I sum A.R.Rahman as a Golden Opportunity to listen to good music
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:50 AM, AJ <purev...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > ....it is to be experienced and felt. The word "experience" to me > represents something felt that is pervasive and through and through, felt by > the complete being, not necessarily multi-sensory based, but with a sense of > wholeness and deep satisfaction. The words "listen" and "hear" also apply to > AR's music for me at the initial stages, but they do not adequately describe > what is ultimately felt, since his music is so emotionally deep and ambient > filled, instrumentally multilayered, and sonically multi-dimensional > > There's music that we just listen and hear on a cursory level, not > necessarily negating likeability, and then there's music that takes the next > leap into enabling us to feel and experience. It behooves us to be open to > this experience without cynicism or pre-supposition and pre-judgement. A > cursory listen to AR's music in most instances to me is an opportunity > missed. At the end of the day, you will either like or not like a song, but > the opportunity to experience the music on a deeper level must present > itself since the deeper, more experience rich based ingredients are almost > always there in AR's music. Hence, the frequent pattern of multiple > exposures correlating with greater likeability. > > >
