On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote:
> I'm curious. How many of you listen to music as a single-tasking > activity? Or at least, the primary foreground activity? And what > differentiates that from other modes of listening to music? > Me. And listening to music as the primary (actually, only) activitiy is very different from having music on as the background to other activities, when I am hearing, not listening. When I listen to music, I am so concentrated on it that it is...hmm, sounds pretentious to say this, but ...a form of yoga. This will happen with any form of music that I like...it doesn't have to be classical music. Funny, but it was just yesterday that it happened twice to me. A radio in a chai stall was playing an old Hindi movie song and entranced, I stopped drinking my chai, and had to be pulled back to reality by irate friends. In the evening, we stopped at Maddur "Tiffany's" (more about calling a "tiffin" restaurant "Tiffany's" or "Tiffanese" later) and they had the daily concert. A flutist was playing extraordinarily well, and I was lost in Kharaharapriya, and forgot that I was eating dinner...closed my eyes and was enjoying the music. I'd say...the difference between hearing and listening. Deepa.
