#11 On reading music
I won't post the videos for these, if interested they can be found
so first off is Max Richter's Sleep, you know how heavenly it is to be asleep, or partially asleep and feeling so comfortable, and you're in another world, a sweet delicious reality you could spend eternity in, well for me this is like that. Perfect for reading to, and it's what i'm listening to now, and my idea of going deaf i have 2nd thoughts of, being able to hear Sleep is worth everything else.
and then there's Robert Rich's Somnium and Perpetual, with this you get nature sounds, and it's like you're in a heaven on earth, somewhere uninhabited by other people, and like in a dream you don't need anything, just exist and be content.
Steve Roach is another prolific ambient drone artist not to be missed if you like this sort of thing.
For many, me included the introduction to ambient music was Brian Eno, his Music for Airports and Discreet Music are imo his best.
Reading music for me has to be background, it can't have singing with words, as that is too distracting.
But for a more aggressive side of it all there are some dark doom drone stuff, and those fit nicely if you're reading something scary.
On the idea deafness - i do wish i could be deaf so i could spend more time with the family without anything blocking the sounds while reading. Some might say get ear plugs, and i've never come across any of those that actually work. As i slept last i did dream about what it would be like, it was sad, but you know what? I like an aesthetic sadness, the soft billowy comforters of woe, like the age of romanticism's gloom, in the poets and Gothic novels, and spreading out in an assorted cornucopia of modern cultural examples. Sad songs, sad melodies, much of classical music, the slow adagios and andantes. The pathos of tragedy, and most profoundly, of intellectually peering into the darkness of human nature with an abiding desire to understand, which saves it from being a cheap form of sensationalism. Which is what Hollywood and mainstream facets try to shove down our receptive throats. Aye, m'laddies, there must be a sense of the rare in these things, that you're getting yourself into something special.
Back to my book🏜
so first off is Max Richter's Sleep, you know how heavenly it is to be asleep, or partially asleep and feeling so comfortable, and you're in another world, a sweet delicious reality you could spend eternity in, well for me this is like that. Perfect for reading to, and it's what i'm listening to now, and my idea of going deaf i have 2nd thoughts of, being able to hear Sleep is worth everything else.
and then there's Robert Rich's Somnium and Perpetual, with this you get nature sounds, and it's like you're in a heaven on earth, somewhere uninhabited by other people, and like in a dream you don't need anything, just exist and be content.
Steve Roach is another prolific ambient drone artist not to be missed if you like this sort of thing.
For many, me included the introduction to ambient music was Brian Eno, his Music for Airports and Discreet Music are imo his best.
Reading music for me has to be background, it can't have singing with words, as that is too distracting.
But for a more aggressive side of it all there are some dark doom drone stuff, and those fit nicely if you're reading something scary.
On the idea deafness - i do wish i could be deaf so i could spend more time with the family without anything blocking the sounds while reading. Some might say get ear plugs, and i've never come across any of those that actually work. As i slept last i did dream about what it would be like, it was sad, but you know what? I like an aesthetic sadness, the soft billowy comforters of woe, like the age of romanticism's gloom, in the poets and Gothic novels, and spreading out in an assorted cornucopia of modern cultural examples. Sad songs, sad melodies, much of classical music, the slow adagios and andantes. The pathos of tragedy, and most profoundly, of intellectually peering into the darkness of human nature with an abiding desire to understand, which saves it from being a cheap form of sensationalism. Which is what Hollywood and mainstream facets try to shove down our receptive throats. Aye, m'laddies, there must be a sense of the rare in these things, that you're getting yourself into something special.
Back to my book🏜
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