I have a few words to say about music:
It's amazing how small fluctuations in air pressure can move a person to tears. Or cause their heart to skip a beat as a tune pauses for a half second longer before plunging on. Music is a wonderful way to relax. It refreshes your head: a sauna of the mind. It can influence and enhance your writing and thoughts (I'm currently listening to the soulful, eccentric music of Kenna), and provides a nice buffer for when there's nothing to talk about. Sometimes, however, music can be harmful. When you're trying to program, do math, or trying to accomplish a very complex task, music can be very distracting. Your mind splits between the music and the task, and you don't accomplish what you wanted to do, nor do justice to the music. It amazes me how often people listen to music when they are doing complex tasks. I wonder how much they lose by listening to music. Perhaps they lose hours and hours of work. Or, maybe they lose nothing. It depends on if their minds are similar to mine.
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Thoughts and experiences from a computer science chick, juggler and powder hound.
3 comments:
Music the mystery.
An aural reflection of visual beauty, why we like some and not others is tough to discern. I would imagine some genetic, cultural, and personal reasons set us all apart, but on a basic level music has independently developed in the same basic directions. (Same tonal differences, rhythm, string and wind instruments).
I find that music tends to circumnavigate my conscious self and affects the much less defined part. As such it never seems to interfere with my thinking. Even once the song finishes this process continues in my mind, synthesizing motifs and harmonies without my conscious effort- a sort of never ending melody.
My (non-coherent semi-unconscious) thoughts.
Hahahaha! Johnathan you are wonderful. Well said.
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