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Ask HN: Does music play a significant role in your life?

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Does music play a significant role in your life? How so?

Do you appreciate the art/composition of music? The atmosphere?

What genres/artists?

Do you have a preference for headphones or stereo?

Do you make/write music? Are there particular aspects you enjoy the most?

Do you listen to feel?

Do you listen to cope with particular experiences/emotions? Or maybe to reach particular emotions/emotional states?

Do you find that music (the listening and/or the making of it) has therapeutic benefits?

Or if you love music for any other reason, do share!

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I love listening to music but the role it has played in my life is different.

Perhaps I should own this, but I blame it for some difficult deep hurt.

A few important people in my life… father, wife, daughter… have been involved in making music in such a passionate way that it left other things, themselves, and their relationships, in the dust. It has meant essentially losing those people, especially the first two, for all practical purposes. Who themselves were also wounded by other life experiences, not by music, but music was a big barrier they put up between them and life afterward.

Sorry to hear this.

To clarify, do you mean they used music as a way to cope with or to channel their difficult experiences? Or you mean they used music as a sort of escape?

Hope things have gotten better.

Much love.

Ive got tinnitus and sensitive hearing, so if possible i have some music playing in the background all the time. Mostly "classic rock", eclectic bits of other things popular in the last 30 years, a lot of classical.

    $ du -bhs ~/Music/
    86G

Before CD ripping was a thing I had a couple of the Sony "CD Jukebox" 200 disc changers that I bought broke and repaired so I could have a constant stream of selected, commercial free music. It's gotten so much easier now.

Figuring out my own way to make and play music has profoundly changed my life.

It gives me something infinity mutable for my mind to play around in, without having to be wired into the rest of the world.

I make electroacoustic music with instruments and playing methods of my own design. There is so much untapped sonic territory.

My partner and I listen to music and sing to each other. I used to tune music out and ignored all music as 'background noise.' It wasn't until relatively recently that I started to appreciate it thanks to exposure to Fantasia and spending time with my partner showing me music that I've grown to appreciate music and grow as a human being.

Sorry I just changed the question/description. But I think now it works better, and you answer is spot on :)

This would make a beautiful movie :')

I'd watch that movie :)

significant - no, but it's always there in the background, a pop song or catchy lyric suddenly comes to mind and you start singing. it's often unconscious

i ve come to appreciate some of the golden-age operas, so much beauty and drama there and so much of our current music in it. Cant help but feel awe for the way they composed it

my hearing sucks so headphones dont make a big difference, most of my music comes from the quite crappy speakers on my monitor

making electronic music is fun and easy, but i m not sure the recording /arranging part is very enjoyable, it does feel like work

i feel music has complementary benefits, it s the sound that is missing from the air and it completes things

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