To be conditioned to experience sound in rigid forms is to lose touch with perceptual awareness.
By this I mean that the sensations of sound lose breadth, depth, and nuance. A "sameness" of texture, tonal quality, and stylistic formula pervades the listening experience, and the ability to distinguish between the finely wrought and the merely competent is stultified. Essential sounds of the surrounding world, with the exception of undesirable noises, are dimmed, such that they may even go unnoticed in the scheme of things.
Having experienced the joy of music and the beauty of sound, the faithful listener will find such a state of affairs unacceptable. The composer would do well to accept the challenge of not only restoring a fullness of auditory awareness, but of improving upon the art of listening itself, and moving beyond the conformity of expression that diminishes listening pleasure.
By this I mean that the sensations of sound lose breadth, depth, and nuance. A "sameness" of texture, tonal quality, and stylistic formula pervades the listening experience, and the ability to distinguish between the finely wrought and the merely competent is stultified. Essential sounds of the surrounding world, with the exception of undesirable noises, are dimmed, such that they may even go unnoticed in the scheme of things.
Having experienced the joy of music and the beauty of sound, the faithful listener will find such a state of affairs unacceptable. The composer would do well to accept the challenge of not only restoring a fullness of auditory awareness, but of improving upon the art of listening itself, and moving beyond the conformity of expression that diminishes listening pleasure.
