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Nostalgia A funny thing happened on the way to growing up. I started experiencing nostalgia. Not sure when it started, but it is almost always triggered by music or by a smell - hardly ever by sight or touch or taste. There is music that still reminds me of the 78s I played as a kid - The Sword in the Stone, William Tell, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Stuff like that. But nostalgia is funny. It is funny strange because it
never ever existed. I mean, I am sure I played the heck out of those records - but that I never had a feeling of buoyancy and boundless joy when I played them. I just played them to pass the time and to try to figure this 'life' thing out by doing what the people were doing. Another 'trigger' for me, and probably for Neli, is the Girl from Ipanema. The feelings I get revolve around the hearing this song for the first time on a system setup by Alvino at Sound Hounds with Von Schweikert VR4 speakers and the Levinson 20.6 monoblocks. Sure it was big and expansive. But beyond that it set us down this path where we have ended up here, today, posting articles on our new high-end audio magazine [darn that Alvino. Watch out for that guy!]. And so the feelings of nostalgia that are generated by hearing this song, that flash back on that demo, go way beyond what actually happened at that demo. In this way music triggers responses in us that both summarize, as well as extend, our appreciation of our past and who we are. I have a lot more to say about this subject - as I think it is one of the key gifts that music brings into our lives.  Shows |
