Re: (idm) PBO and Re: personal music manifesto...

From Jeff Barszcz
Sent Fri, Jun 4th 1999, 19:26

At 10:09 AM 6/4/99 +0100, you wrote:
>On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 14:32:43   Jeff Barszcz wrote:
>
>>What do you mean by "feeling," though?  Are you talking about emotion?
>>That's dangerously subjective ground.  
>
>Dangerously?? :-) Care to explain exactly how?

Well, I guess I just meant that it's not a good idea to generalize or
speculate about what emotions a song evokes or how emotional it is.
Emotions are, of course, a subjective experience.  What one person
experiences when listening might not be what another experiences.  Maybe
"dangerously" wasn't a good word to use.  I just meant that maybe it's not
worth using emotion as way to evaluate music.  In fact, the only way to
know what a song has to offer is to listen for yourself.  Writing about
music is usually useless.  Just my opinion.  BTW, I don't mean to put down
discussion on this list.  I've gotten a lot out of it and enjoy finding out
about stuff I haven't heard or hearing about upcoming releases, etc.  I
just don't get much out of people talking about what emotions a song evokes
because I've found that I often react differently.  As I said, that's just me.

Jeff