I love music. When I’m not cooking, playing with my kids, or just listening to music, I spend time at the piano and in the studio making music. I use music to relax, to create, and to create a space of connection with my listeners.
Well, for starters, music seems to be a way to get your brain to slow down. I know that music has been used for relaxation and brain-training, but it’s also a powerful tool to help us stay in the moment and not get too caught up in the past or the future. I remember one of my favorite band’s songs, “The Moment,” that’s so powerful because it gets your mind off of the past and focuses you in the present.
There’s a lot of research that shows how music helps us stay in the present by making us focus on the present moment. As you start to listen to music you will naturally be more present-focused, and this will help you put off distractions and become more present-focused as well. For example, I often listen to classical music, which uses the ear and brain to process a variety of different sounds, while I play guitar.
This is the first time I’ve actually gotten into this stuff; I’ve only listened to the songs in the trailers, so I have to make some guesses about my own tastes, how my own style was used in the trailers, and what the results were. The first time I heard “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” on YouTube, I was impressed.
A lot of classical music tends to be quite different from what we hear in our ears on a regular basis. It’s different because our brains are processing different sounds, and so it can change how we feel about what our ears pick up. For example, I tend to listen to classical music on my MP3 player, which forces me to process a variety of different sounds. The same applies when I play guitar. My brain wants to make different comparisons between different sounds.
The same holds true when it comes to music. The way that we process music has been altered by the way we build our brains. So for instance, when I play classical music, I tend to get an auditory experience that I might not normally get when I listen to classical music on YouTube, and this may be because the way I process music, and even the way my brain processes it, is different.
The other thing that I find interesting (although I know that this is all subjective as I don’t have any formal training in this) is how different music is processed in our brains. It is very common for people to say, “I like to sing.” The song you like is usually one that has been around for a long time.
That’s a fairly easy observation to make, but what I mean is that we like to hear music that has a history. We hear music that we like, which means that we have a good memory for it, and when we hear a new song we don’t just remember it. We’ve actually been listening to the same song a long time, so there’s a good chance we are actually replaying the same part of the song in our brains.
The same goes for music installation. We often hear a song, or a recording of a song, and it comes back with a new message. And we have a good memory for it. We like to hear music that we know were going to like. We know that we like new music, because weve listened to it before. So we are replaying the same song in our brains.
In the case of music installation, the lyrics we remember are the ones that were playing. And of course we also have a memory for the music that we’ve listened to.