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.
