Spintricity - Music & Life ........... A Connection?

Music and the life experience, is there a connection? Whether you consider yourself an audiophile or just a person who enjoys music, does the act of listening to music affect your life or is it just noise to fill in the blank spaces? Now.......I\'m not saying that you have a blank space in your head, I\'m just offering a view based on my experiences over the years.

I have to assume if your reading this e-zine article you believe music matters in some way. In my experience, listening to music can be a transformational event. The music enters your being, affects you, and moves you to reach beyond what you were and transports you to where you are going. I know this might sound a little “deep” but why would you sit and listen to music if it \'s just noise to fill in the silence?

How I see it, music should change you, take you a little bit deeper into yourself and ultimately affect who you are and how others perceive you. Hopefully, the musical experience will make you a better person than you were before. It provides healing for your soul/body and enriches your spirit or life force. Whatever it is that music means to you or does to you, I bet it affects you in more ways that you may have ever considered.

While the equipment can help enhance the musical experience, it really plays a small role in allowing you to have the musical experience at all. Whether a table radio, a high end system, or a live concert, the music, words, and emotional response are real. The high-end/audiophile experience should allow you to build a system that makes the experience as real as possible for YOU! There is no minimum entry fee to gain entrance to this musical enriching experience. An iPod can be just as effective as a half million dollar analogue system. I know this might be heresy for some but I believe it to be absolutely real in my perception of music and the life experience.

When I completed my dedicated audio room, I sat down and came up with a saying that expressed my thoughts about what music meant to me. I put these words on the wall outside my audio room as a way to share with people and hopefully, elicit some conversation. Often, I am asked why these words are on the wall and where the words came from. I share I wanted to convey why music was important to me and how it affects me as a person. None of the words are an original thought on my part, but were brought together from bits and pieces I found to produce a message that speaks to me and hopefully others as well.

In the coming weeks, I plan to explore and share many thoughts about music. Topics will include
active versus passive listening, how to choose & buy music, and how you can organize your music collection. I also want to share how you can keep in touch with new music, explore different genres of music, and how my listening habits and experiences have changed as I\'ve aged. I\'ll share with you how my friends, audiophile buddies, children, wife, and life experiences have affected my choices of music. Hopefully, this will give you some ideas that may inspire you to explore and experience music in a new and potentially more meaningful way.

Please join me on this journey. Feel free to give me some feedback. You may agree, disagree, or just plain think I\'m a out there. My desire will be to open a few eyes, expand some views on music, and ultimately engage you to action that results in music being more meaningful to you and those around you.

Good listening!
Brian