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Category: General
Record player over Spotify
Listening music through a record player is a completely different experience than using some audio streaming platform. I’m not building up a boring technical discussion about sound quality, I’m not even sure if vinyl is technically better than a file, and honestly I’m not interested in it.
It’s all about psychology. Search the vinyl in your collection, remove some dust, kindly put the vinyl on the player, position the stylus, press play and wait. This ritual really prepares your mind to a real listening experience.
I use Spotify or Youtube while working (I usually work from several terminals) but that’s another experience, another moodset. For instance, I try to choose iterative instrumental simple no-frills music. Or Bach, the only author I can listen while working, maybe that’s because of the mathematically perfect structures within the compositions.
Quite another matter if I need to listen a new LP for the first time. The ritual mentioned above makes me focused and dedicated, lights off, comfortable chair, closed eyes.
Rituals are important in our lives.
Start listening to each other again
For some years now we have been exposed to a continuous information overload, and things are not showing signs of improving. We are not able to process all this information, so we tend to observe everything with a certain superficiality, nevertheless the desire for information is constant, and seems to grow with the possibilities that technology offers.
All this makes us stupid.
Instead, we need to be active and conscious, let’s leave deep learning to machines, we are human beings, with our precious limitations. We need to focus on one topic at a time, without distractions. This trend is slowly polluting even the workplace. The newspapers write high-sounding headlines but articles full of typos and disconnected periods. This is just one of the signs of this change, which is verifiable in many forms of art, from music to video games. I don’t remember who said that the truth is in the details, in the maze of a very long book, between the lines. Let us not abandon ourselves to this trend, let us seek the truth.
Those few who still know how to be focused, who live in the here and now, will one day find themselves alone, surrounded by intellectually inferior beings, subjugated by machines.
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