Jerome Wrote:Does that mean that all classical music is off limits for you simply because it was made hundreds of years ago? Incidentally very much 'happening' music since it could not be recorded at the time. Or does it mean only music you have heard/experienced in your life time. If that's the case you are closing yourself off to a hell of a lot of material.
No one said it were off-limits or that I were closing myself off to anything.
If I go to a chamber or orchestra concert to hear that sort of music, those musicians are interpreting that written recipe for me live in real time, and I am at the moment of creation.
If I listen to a dance music programme on the radio I'm as close the DJ's point of creation as I can get. It may have been pre-recorded but everyone is hearing it live in real time with me.
But something like say, Jimi Hendrix -- I'm very aware that I'm experiencing an aural equivalent of a photograph. I will never be able to experience that music's moment of creation as it went down. I find that familiarity lessens a piece of music's impact greatly.