Music To My Ears

I used to have thoughts generally about music being a pysop to hijack the internal state of the listener into states that serve someone else's agenda.

Must have downloaded this thought on one of the rabbit holes I've gotten into during my past time of puzzle fixing on the many fractures of life.

This specific thought has gone through quite a few fundamental changes over the years and although I can say that my sensitivity to music has increased over said time period, the really defining factor is reading conflicting material about music as of late and having to sit down and ask myself which among the different opinions is true based on my own personal experience.

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I think culture and time period also plays a part as during my teenage years, I mostly listened to hip hop music since that's what I heard playing most of the time at places that I tend to visit. My mom is never a fan of this type of music though. She comments that it's too fast for her to digest, whatever that may mean, at the time. I don't know. I just loved the tempo of it all with the phase of life I was in.

I liked the access that music facilitates to certain states of mind that normally I wouldn't be able to access on my own. On the far extreme side of the spectrum is songs like Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens that I've listened so many times for no other reason than the state of mind it projects about the human condition, which I tend to find a strange comfort in.

I also liked the togetherness that music can bring with strangers you'll never speak to, i.e. there's a sense of camaraderie with people who translated something untranslatable and somehow got it right.

The pysop angle looks to me more like seeing the color of water as transparent and then deciding that it should be black.

Of course, there's a strong element of surrender involved, which I think it's often left with the individual to be able to decide how much of themselves they're willing to hand over, so to speak. It might be an actual skill to be aware of how different kinds of music makes you feel and then employing a filtering mechanism to not get sucked into certain types by pure internal decision even when the song is blasting in your external world.

Nowadays, I've gravitated towards otherworldly music, which I sometimes define as just fantasy music, like a movie, you know it's not realistic but it still has a strong element of realness to it, which in some ways, blurs the line between reality and fiction on a musical level. An example song here is Upwards to the moon by Sa Dingding, one specific verse being; three thousand lifetimes, as though they [have] passed unseen.


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