Your post really resonated with me (also amateur musician). I was just playing Garcia’s Loser and it clicked for me, as it was written about my life, putting to song deep emotions that would take many more words of prose to express.
How much of this appreciation of emotion in song is due to the creative depth of the composition versus a projection of the listener? Listening to some great studio music makes me really want to believe it’s mostly the former.
Anyways, maybe we will just need to become much more sophisticated and thoughtful and observant music critics in the coming age of infinity radio. (So as to experience the deep human connection of “real music”. I really hope that the AI fails to successfully fake it for my lifetime and my children’s.)
How much of this appreciation of emotion in song is due to the creative depth of the composition versus a projection of the listener? Listening to some great studio music makes me really want to believe it’s mostly the former.
Anyways, maybe we will just need to become much more sophisticated and thoughtful and observant music critics in the coming age of infinity radio. (So as to experience the deep human connection of “real music”. I really hope that the AI fails to successfully fake it for my lifetime and my children’s.)