How do you listen to music?

[Ron Resnick]

i will occasionally jump up and do a little white man jig when the spirits moves me, both in front and behind the listening chair.

Kedar wants a video.

 

[Kingrex]

Sometimes I sit and really listen. Other times I'm working out and doing yoga. Other times I'm staring at my computer of a magazine.

 

[godofwealth]

What’s remarkable about music is the sheer variety of activities that it is combined with. People listen to music while jogging, walking, making dinner, eating a meal, driving to work, flying on a business trip and so on. An interesting aspect is that music seems necessary and helpful, even enjoyable, while people engage in all these other activities. Perhaps it tells us something deeper about our brains. Music ultimately is just a sequence of acoustic waves. The “Quadfather” Peter Walker used to say that designing a loudspeaker was a problem in physics, since you needed to produce a device that turned current into pressure waves, and you could be completely deaf and still be fascinated by it. Beethoven was deaf during the most creative part of his life and yet composition kept him going and saved him from despair. I expect decades from now we will not need loudspeakers or tube amplifiers or DACs, instead we will use custom neural implants that can play whatever music you think you’d like to hear. You might not even need to select tracks. The implant could “read your mind” and figure out what to play.

 

[Kingrex]

I was thinking about in front of my stereo. But I play music in the car sometimes. But that is usually talk radio. I have piped music in the house so I play it in the background. We play music in the morning having coffee.