From: john williams (ducati900@bigpond.com)
Date: Sat Jan 18 2003 - 11:58:56 GMT
Hi all
" He found an example within the field of music. He said. Imagine you walk down a street past, say, a car where someone has the radio on and it plays a tune you've never heard before but which is so fantastically good it just stops you in your tracks. You listen until it's done. Days later you remember exactly what the street looked like when you heard the music, (snip) it all comes back so vividly you wonder what song they were playing, so you wait until you hear it again.
One day it comes on the radio again and you get the same feeling and you catch the name and you rush to the store to buy it and home to listen to it.
You get home. You play it. It's really good. It doesn't quite transform the room into some thing different but it's really good. You play it again. Really good. You play it again, it's still good but your not sure if you want to listen to it again. But you play it again and now your really sure you don't want to hear it again and you put it away. You file it away and once and a while play it again for a friend and maybe months or years later you pull it out and play it with the memory of something you were crazy about. (snip)
Now what has happened? You could say you got tired of it. Has it lost its quality? Either it's good or it's not good. If it's good, why don't you play it? If it's not good why do you recommend it to your friend? (snip)
The first good, that made you want to buy this record, was Dynamic Quality. Dynamic Quality takes you by surprise. What the record did was weaken your existing static patterns in such a way that the DQ all around you shone through. It was free with out static forms. The second good, that made you want to recommend it to a friend, even if you had lost your own enthusiasm for it , is static quality. Static quality is what you normally expect."
Have we all experienced this? There are actually a couple of aspects to this phenomenon (I shouldn't use that word here should I?). Firstly that initial feeling stays with you for life when it's the best music, There is music in my back catalogue that when I here it transports me back 20 years to the place (physically and mentally) I was in when I used to listen to the song. Secondly, the song recaptures a lot of it's magic when you here it on the radio, I have songs that I love to here on the radio but won't listen to at home.
This is related and I think it's interesting but you may not want to read on. I had this experience about 14 years ago; I heard a Sting (the musician) song on the radio, a song I find so achingly beautiful that I usually cry when I hear it. I didn't know what the song was but it was played on the radio a lot and I caught the name of it and mentioned to a few friends how much I loved the song and that I would have to buy it. I didn't and about 12 months I was going through my record collection and discovered that I owned the record with this song on it. My wife and I used to listen to it on a daily basis only 10 months before my initial experience.
My wife died in the intervening period and my recollection of the song had been completely wiped, cauterized, I would say. Probably not relevant to anything but whenever I think of this musical experience I think of that.
John from The Rock
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