Gracie Abrams -- Stay

https://youtu.be/LChF16vd4RM?si=X35ugp2rFkiDs0AD

I was sitting in a coffee shop the other evening when the chorus of this song caught my attention.

Struck by the singer-songwriter pathos, I noted down a couple of lines of the lyrics on a napkin so that I could identify the song later.

Listening to "Stay" in my kitchen the next day, I found the song insubstantial and less moving than it had been when I heard it in the coffee shop.

My differing responses made me think again of how much the setting in which we hear music can shape our response. I don't think many will disagree with that observation.

More controversial but quite fascinating to me is the claim that our auditory perception of the music will be shaped both by non-acoustic aspects of the setting and by our beliefs and desires.

That claim exists at the intersection of musicology, psychology, and philosophy. Discussion of "authenticity" in early music performance and the significance of the visual in Kpop have prompted my interest in this matter.

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#CloserToTruth - Can #Music #Probe #Human #Mentality?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJcSwJminSg&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

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#JonathanBerger - Using #Art to Understand the #Mind

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