Frameworks Issue #14: How to Listen to Music

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Wait a minute.... There's a "How-to" on listening to music??

You bet there is! 😃

I posted in an earlier blog post titled, 'Frameworks Issue #10: The Power of Your Sound', on how sound / music affects not just our emotions but our ideas, our thoughts, our perception and it shapes worlds...

I talked about how sound plays a role in shaping the way we believe and how it affects the world around us. You can check out that post of which I also shared a link to a company that creates music by taking your dna. Yep you can send your DNA sample to them and they'll make YOU into a song!

Whilst that post was focused on what we say and speak, today's post will be on the other end of it. LISTENING!

Now........ onto today's word!

Some Music Philosophy

Here's a quote by Plato who was a philosopher but made a lot of emphasis on what music.

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning” - Plato

Another man called Andrew Fletcher, a Scottish writer from the 15th century said,

Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. - Andrew Fletcher

Short story time!

My brother went to ICOM (International College of Music) and shared about what a lecturer of his once said while teaching a subject called "Music Appreciation". The lecturer said that, "If you listen to crap music, you'll play crap music. You listen to rubbish, you play rubbish". My brother said he was referring to POP music and emphasizing learning to listen to jazz but I believe he wasn't saying that all POP music are trash (although that's probably EXACTLY what he was saying), but the message is clear, that what you hear affects you, one way or another.

Like in our current day and age where there is great emphasis on eating healthily, I like to propose to watch what kind of music we devour. For me, since I know that music affects me as a person, I'd wanna only take in the good stuff.......... healthy stuff............ nutritional stuff......... It's like, listening in a way that'll make you healthy.

Listen in such a way that will make you healthy.

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To me, good music is music that either has a purposeful message or just simply music that makes you happy; upbeat, funky, quarter note pulse kinda music. (first time using a semicolon. Did I use it right? 😃)

I understand that composers of songs often relate a message of their emotions which is therapeutic to them like how writing and blogging is to a lot of us Steemians, and I'm not apposed to or saying that they shouldn't create music like such and such, but as a listener, I'd wanna listen to music that keeps the good vibes on. I can't control what people produce but I can choose what I listen to.

And if I'm not in a good mood, I normally don't listen to music because as much as we we like to listen to music to drown out our negative emotions, it often amplifies it!

So bad mood + lyrics that relay frustration = Very bad day.... worst than it would've been. Do that long enough and you'll have prolong misery. Unnecessary if you ask me.

A lof of the time, music that talks about negativity or brokenness sell the hottest and that is because it either relates with us factually or emotionally. I'm not appose to music like that however I'd like to propose a different way of approaching and listening to music. A more responsible way of listening to music if you would say.

I heard from a drums clinic CD that I watched (forgot what the name was), that goes something like this......
"Music is not just in the notes that are played, but in the notes that are not played. It's not just in the sounds, it's in silence as well. Music is the composition of variations of sound and silence".

My recommendation, if you're in a bad mood, instead of noise, be in silence instead. Listen to the most encouraging voice in your head and not the realest emotion.

Music often amplifies your current state of being. Sometimes be in silence instead. Listen to the most encouraging voice in your head!

Tobu / 7obu - Colors

What better way to conclude than to share some music! 😃

If you're new to the music that I share, most of what I share are either undiscovered artist or low profile ones from various genres that aren't mainstream music or what you'd normally hear on the radio.

Haven't been consistently sharing my list of music the past few weeks but it's back with a series of artist that do........... house music.

So for this coming 3 weeks I'll be sharing with you some melodical house music and to start it off, here's a guy who goes under the screen name Tobu or 7obu. I'm sure you've heard his music as background tracks for commercials or those football highlight reels on YouTube which is where I first heard Tobu's music.

Anywayz............ Hope you are blessed and gain more clarity in certain things through reading this. It was a mashup between two things I do which is sharing "undiscovered" music / musicians and the "Frameworks" blog. Didn't plan for it to happen but it did and I hope you're encouraged and edified.

Here's this gem of a tune by Tobu. Until next time, full STEEM ahead and peace out! ✌️

note: listen with headphones for full enjoyment 😃

Every week I'll be posting at least 1 song of my list of various genres I listen to. Stay tune for more interesting tunes you don't usually hear on the radio.