[firdak]

> As someone who gets a significant amount of his daily joy from listening to music...

I, in turn, find this somewhat astonishing. Not only is it so different from my own experience, it's difficult to understand.

When you're enjoying a piece of music, you can at least imagine what it would be like not to feel anything. For me, though, when I see people enjoying music, it's so confusing. What am I "supposed" to be feeling?

[staticautomatic]

You really ought to try acid sometime.

[plaguuuuuu]

Music is a form of communication. What I experience in certain pieces of music is a connection with a particular set or category of feelings that verbal language is simply unable to describe with an equivalent clarity and it's a sort of empathy shared with the composer.

edit: Can you guess what people might feel from this piece? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XWKq_kg2Ws

[firdak]

> Can you guess what people might feel from this piece? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XWKq_kg2Ws

That's a difficult one. It didn't make me feel anything, so I really do have to guess what other people might feel.

For example, I have to think about occasions on which similar pieces of music are generally used. A solo piano like this piece is often sad, but on the other hand, this piece has a higher tempo than most sad songs.

[lgats]

the beat!