Music to express personal feelings and thoughts
When it comes to music perception, it is first about pitch or music consonance, so its foundations are in acoustics. However, making music or listening to music is much more than being an issue of external perceptions. As an art, music differs from sculpture or drawing: for centuries, it never searched to reproduce elements found in the physical world, but it tried to express personal thoughts and feelings to the world. Also, when it comes to listening, sounds are not so much heard with the ear, which is only a medium to perceive sounds. Sounds are perceived by the whole human body, and real listening begins with reflection, with some path going from concepts to will.
Music may be a true aesthetic experience, working on the soul and exploring the realm of the self and connecting it to the Universe. More than other arts, music is created from mental images and it is an expression of the will. From that perspective, music is an expression of an invisible reality. And as well as the composer, the music listener may find in music a reflection of a specific spiritual home. However, not all music listeners are able to perceive the inner movements of music.
Also, an objective performance of music does not always correspond with our subjective perception of it. However, there are no sounds outside of listeners, who hear with their ears the basic materials offered by musical sounds and then analyse them in their mind, according to their gender, political opinions, class, racial experience and personal life.
Listening beyond judgment
Do we ever listen to someone without translating, transforming and twisting what we hear ? We hear people through the image that we have built about them. Through the lens of the irritation or, on the contrary, the joy, that comes into the relationship. Can a mind listen to a statement without any of these interferences? If so, what is important is the act of listening and that act of listening brings a miracle: the listener is completely free from all statements, whether they are true or false. Complete attention without interference of thought delivers the mind of the listener from all statements and the mind is free to act.
Sometimes, our minds may be so commercial that we do not do anything without being sure that we will receive something in exchange. Our minds live in the marketplace and we do not do anything without a reward, without a purpose. Everything must be an exchange and nothing is a gift. On the other hand, we want everything for free. To a certain extent, why not after all? Isn’t it nice that today, music is free for listeners most of the time? A higher number of people can enjoy it. But when it comes to music listening, there is an exchange: listeners give their attention, and then, music may convey its message.