Many of us start listening to music ready to take flight. A beat and a tune at the right moment can shape our perception of the reality around us - or disassociate us from it altogether, like an umbilical cord temporarily cut or a blind shut for a few minutes or hours.
It can motivate us to do more or it can ease the pain, cushioning it. Music, I believe, can be a roll call to our best senses if we are willing to try. Mentally or even physically, what we listen to can paint a picture to an adjusted perspective or tear down the walls around us and introduce a new view altogether.
We experience music in a myriad of different ways. Be it for convenience or enrichment of the whole experience, it’s the place and equipment elevating it all, but also the platform we choose. Music is intrinsic to this community, at least for the time being, so I would like to center the attention on the latter: the platform.
- What medium do you use to listen to music?
Did you surrender your daily life to the likes of a subscription? Spotify, Apple Music, even Tidal, Pandora or YouTube Music, they all have found their customer base. Or do you use an app that’s specific to where you live, not having gained a significant footprint on the global market?
Or perhaps you refuse to leave behind your pristine collection of physical treasures. CDs were all the rage after and before the vinyls. The future became the predecessor. A lot of us tried them at a store, a few seconds per track, before opening our wallets; a lot of us walked with a Discman, moving like we had cotton below our feet so the music didn’t jump.
Digital or analog, buying or streaming; it’s the best method - or the best method for you, the unity, instead of the crowd. You grappled with the possibilities before finding what suits you best and I hope this thread is an invitation for us to share, after all, where do we listen to music. We are all ears.
