Can music alter one’s consciousness?
musicismylife78
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I am not really referring to: does a punk music fan who listens to punk rock want to run out and get a Mohawk and put on tight black pants. That’s not what I am talking about.
What I was wondering was more metaphysical or almost spiritual.
Not to get all hippie on y’all but does music alter one’s consciousness?
By listening to The Beatles day in and day out, does one begin to pick up the themes and ideas and morals and beliefs inherent in that music? If one listens to Arcade Fire or Bruce Springsteen or Bob Dylan is does that music become almost part of your DNA? And do multiple listens only enhance that? Saul Williams once said similar things, that after a night at a club, feel your heartbeat, it mirrors the type and beat of the music. Interesting perspective and precisely the thing I am getting at. Does listening to a diet of The Clash and Neil Young make the listener more compassionate and tolerant and more likely to become an activist? Does the listening to songs by Radiohead, Cat Power, The Shins etc… ingrain the values and consciousness inside each song into the DNA so to speak of the listener?
Does listening to a band, cd, song, etc… almost rub off a residue onto the listener that lingers around many years after first hearing it?
I think I agree with the assertion, but I think we don’t really pick up on it, that it is such a part of our lives and experiences, that we don’t even notice it.
What I was wondering was more metaphysical or almost spiritual.
Not to get all hippie on y’all but does music alter one’s consciousness?
By listening to The Beatles day in and day out, does one begin to pick up the themes and ideas and morals and beliefs inherent in that music? If one listens to Arcade Fire or Bruce Springsteen or Bob Dylan is does that music become almost part of your DNA? And do multiple listens only enhance that? Saul Williams once said similar things, that after a night at a club, feel your heartbeat, it mirrors the type and beat of the music. Interesting perspective and precisely the thing I am getting at. Does listening to a diet of The Clash and Neil Young make the listener more compassionate and tolerant and more likely to become an activist? Does the listening to songs by Radiohead, Cat Power, The Shins etc… ingrain the values and consciousness inside each song into the DNA so to speak of the listener?
Does listening to a band, cd, song, etc… almost rub off a residue onto the listener that lingers around many years after first hearing it?
I think I agree with the assertion, but I think we don’t really pick up on it, that it is such a part of our lives and experiences, that we don’t even notice it.
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and jimi hendrix makes people deliriously think they just heard the greatest guitar playing ever.
aside from that, not sure.
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i don't think people are influenced by music. i think people gravitate towards music that reflects who they are.
If you have a snobby "fuck the world" attitude, then punk is going to be your thing
if you smoke a shitload of pot, then the Doors is actually going to sound good
and if you eat an entire sheet of acid in a sitting, then the Grateful dead will sound like god.
If you're a total fake and don't fit in, you're going to listen to pop radio/hip hop to fit in with people.
If you're gay, then female pop music and dance is where you're going to go because you want to feel good and dance
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My favourite album, Yield, tapped into who I truly am 10 years ago and all thats still in me....
I believe Ive inherited alot of my social/political beliefs from Pearl Jam.....
What they stand for is almost half the reason I like them.....
Same goes for Radiohead, sigur ros, tom waits and REM......
On the other hand, I think radiohead33 also has a point that the music you listen to amplifies your mindset. But it think the chain of causation is that you have a certain mindset first and then gravitate towards the kind of art that reflects that mindset and furthers it.
I very much agree with this.....
The music i listen too reflects, as well as influences, my thoughts and feelings.....
Your PM led me to this, hahahah. Interesting question. I do a lot of chanting, mostly hindu, yogic kind of chanting. Singing all the revealed names of God, and I have to say, it does indeed alter my consciousness. Or more to the point, brings me to it. Meditation for me, is deeply enhanced by music..... experience of the self much more pronounced when accompanied by music and words that have no attachment to ego.
Other music has always done that for me. The live music experience in particular, has always been a really inexplicable bliss for me. At that moment, you are here...... now....... and there's nothing else. All there is, is the collective energy, band, audience....... all here, right now. Group chanting is really amazing for this too, because everyone in the room has exactly the same purpose and the collective energy from that is really quite powerful.
i don't think i ever thought of it this way
I agree with your first statement. But I disagree with all your examples.
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hehe, why do you think i only post in here, and nowhere else, and regard PJ as one of my favourite bands?
If you ask me, you can put them all in bold.
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