Music and audio are grand hobbies that bring a lot of joy into our lives.
If you are looking for a little more entertainment and enjoyment to incorporate into your music & audio hobby, let me share some variations of the “listening games” I engage in that add to my enjoyment of the hobby, and make it more meaningful.
Listening to Bathe In the Music
Sometimes I’ll focus a listening session around immersing myself in my favorite music, soaking in it, letting it wash away the stressors of the day.
This is one type of listening most all of us audio nuts are familiar with. It’s late in the evening, the lights are down low, and I am enjoying listening to some of my favorite albums.
The music is flowing over me, nurturing me, pulling me into its reality, and washing away the stressors of a long day.
A few albums into my listening session I’m refreshed, relaxed, and all is right with my world.
Listening To Remember
Sometimes I’ll focus a listening session around albums that stir up past memories.
There’s certain albums in my music library that bring fond memories back to life. I’m sentimental. I like to revisit cherished memories. Maybe an album reminds me of particular person, or a place, or an event in my life.
Or perhaps just to re-experience a particular feeling that a given album brings back to my emotions. Happiness, sadness, exhilaration, hope, etc.
I’ll focus a listening session around those albums and relive those memories, brought back to life by certain albums. I remember. I feel the emotions. I time travel to a different time, a different place, or maybe an imaginary place from film music.
Listening to Explore
Sometimes I’ll focus a listening session around exploring a new musical genre that is unfamiliar to me. It broadens my musical horizons.
Sometimes I discover a gem, other times a “meh”. It’s always an adventure!
I read in an inspiring article (HERE) that discussed - with examples - 33 types of different music genres and styles to listen to: pop, rock, rap, jazz, blues, folk, metal, country, classical, reggae, punk, techno, trance, EDM (electronic dance music), dubstep, drum & bass, R&B, indie, trap, instrumental, Bossa Nova, disco, ska, world, Latin, opera, shoegaze, funk, swing, grunge, gospel, bluegrass, soul, New Wave, and industrial.
This is where Yazaki-san’s iPhone Adventure with a streaming DAC can be very helpful.
Visit the link above, pick a genre, a couple of artists in the genre, and then go to Amazon Music, YouTube, or other streaming services or radio stations that stream a certain type of music. Listen. Learn. Grow.
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