What are you listening to?

To distinguish your favourite lyrics from your favourite songs. I'm sure there are members such as myself who enjoy music devoid of lyrical content, or gravitate towards a certain song for its musical appeal, rather than the songs lyrics. Perhaps an isolated melody, songs containing either extinct language or enjoyable ambiance.

This is a place you can come to share these harmonies.

 

~ Faure - Sanctus, Pie Jesu & Angnus Dei et Lux Aeterna ~

A beautiful requiem in totality, however the disassembly found between 9 minutes 50 seconds & 10 minutes 37 seconds absolutely breaches the sublime.

 

There's a System of a Down version!

 

It's good to see you, Lulu!

Do you generally prefer to meditate while listening to music, or have you resorted to listening to music while you meditate so to mask your tinnitus? Like you I tend to listen to ambient music also, or meditate outside, because I find it difficult at times to enter, or attempt to enter nonduality when my tinnitus seems hellbent on reminding me of self. The worst type of reminder, too. That combination of both high & low pitch, dramaturgical insistence. Oddly I find it much harder to observe my tinnitus as a passerby, per se, than I do any emotions I have at the time.

 

Superb choice. Have you seen Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders? If not it may interest you. This is the movie which the imagery derives.

 

Haha. Perhaps it could be if the human nervous system processed sensory data at a faster rate. Reminds me of smaller animals - The nervous system of smaller birds, for instance, process sensory information, including sound, much faster than the nervous system of humans. It's hypothesised that from the perspective of a Wood Thrush (MP3 found at the top of the page), the song you've linked would be perceived as though being played 4 - 5 times slower, so to become something like this.

 

There is another music video, Angels, by Black Mountain, that I caught in my late 20's which also features scenes from Wings of Desire. You may or may not gravitate towards said song, though it's always interesting to identify that which reaches for Wim's imagery.

If you do revisit Wings of Desire, let me know how it finds you after these longer periods of time. I've yet to see it & would welcome a push in any particular direction.

 

Cellar Door & Waltz in the 4th Dimension by Michael Andrews are found in my top 100 let's-see-if-insomnia-is-curable list.

So is anti-realism, non-cognitivism, metaethics & Hume, however that's a different thread entirely.