Listen like a Baby! Essential Advice

Listen like a Baby! Essential Advice | Q&A Ep. 04

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@patrick5301 9 ай бұрын

I love how you spent the first 7 minutes describing music to be a social construct. It was an excellent explanation anyway and captured the essence of what constructivism is all about without calling it by its name. 👍 But perhaps, I was now able to give you the word that you were looking for all along 😅

@jzmusick 9 ай бұрын

Thanks, Max, you're truly inspiring. I think your method of integrating sections such as the "Crossovers between music and life" is unique in style.

@sonosmart5996 9 ай бұрын

Thanks Max, good episode. It resonnated when you talked about what you try to reflect with your music. In the end, life is what you make of it i guess.

@Ratstick58 9 ай бұрын

Also, the baby listening idea reminds me so much of an essay called "The loss of the creature" by a catholic writer Walker Percy. The essay and idea are not religious (I'm not religious myself), but he's describing exactly what you're talking about. People when they go to the grand canyon, they see the post cards, the descriptions, etc, but they don't see it in the authentic way that you'd see it if you stumbled upon it in the wild. Education, as important as it is, does this too (his example is a starfish described, deliniated in a book, as fascinating as it is and important as the work done to know it is, that education takes away the "creature", meaning the authentic experience.) It's a short essay and I highly recommend you check it out because you're pretty much describing that idea to a tee.

@maxkonyi 9 ай бұрын

Nice! Will definitely check it out...

@namenaim1560 9 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this. Thought provoking. Thanks Max

@vollkurzsichtig 9 ай бұрын

So kind, thx Max

@themathguy 8 ай бұрын

Best definition I've heard, which is very circular of course, is "Music is what we experience as music."

@maxkonyi 8 ай бұрын

Love it. Very similar to the what Gregor Beyerle said when I spoke to him on the podcast. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5iUqYuFnrxnnrcsi=_CcFTxbqWaZTDgWp&t=87

@Ratstick58 9 ай бұрын

Max, I would love to hear more about how to practice making your auditation stronger. I'm so technically minded I feel like my audiation is extremely underdeveloped. I am more focused on the fingers and tone rather than the "music inside my head", to the point I feel like I just don't have the music "inside me" or maybe a memory disability... Tell me there's hope!

@maxkonyi 9 ай бұрын

Will respond to this in the next Q&A!

@themathguy 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for your videos! I was recently inspired from watching a KZbinr named "Pipe Guy" to build an instrument out of PVC pipes, and I'm discovering that playing an instrument is totally different than singing -- you actually have to know the notes you want to play ("know" in a different sort of way, that is). So I've gotten into ear training. Your method of ear training seems to be one of the best I've found!

@maxkonyi 8 ай бұрын

Nice! Yeah, ear training of this sort becomes important when it comes to playing instruments since there has to be a translation layer from sound to visual, which isn't the case when singing. Excited for you!

@LixinQin 7 ай бұрын

I’ve been thinking about the same thing recently, research found that the music you listen before the age of 14 impacts you the most, so I’m trying to listen like I’m a kid. It’s like watching a magic show in the audience seat without going to the back stage to peep at the mechanism to reveal the secret.

@roelruijs5129 5 ай бұрын

When you answered 'What is music?', you somehow said exactly what I was hoping for. We give names to concepts to isolate them, but in the end nothing is isolatable. You answered this the Alan Watts way ;)

@maxkonyi 5 ай бұрын

Indeed! Gotta love Alan 🌞

@johanjotun1647 7 ай бұрын

I've been studying your ear training setlist and on the second vid your talk about the how Ratios are responsible for the "feel" of the different scale degrees. I'm in amazement that long before there was any means of measuring the BPM of ossilations that create a tone the ancient masters were able to hone in on the placement of pitches in a way that could be reconsiled so neatly both numericlly and geometriclly. its scarry to think how much brainpower Im missing.

@maxkonyi 7 ай бұрын

Haha yeah. Perhaps if you spent a lifetime studying it, you'd come to similar conclusions!

@mmcnabb7500 2 ай бұрын

My two loves philosophy stuff and music ❤

@maxkonyi 2 ай бұрын

Me too!

@glyph6757 4 ай бұрын

You can make music in real time with a virtual instrument that you're directing rather than playing yourself. Brian Eno's "Composers as gardeners" essay expresses this approach far more eloquently than I ever could, and clearly draws the distinction between that style of composing and the traditional approach where a composer picks each individual note. The traditional way of composition sounds more like what you're talking about when you distinguish playing an instrument vs composition. But there are other ways to compose which are more immediate and interactive,and while they're still different than playing an instrument, they're closer to that experience than traditional composition. They also have a collaborative aspect to them that bears some similarity to playing with another musician, where one trades full control for a collaboration where the other is also making music... only with this type of composition the collaboration is with a machine or software rather than with another musician.

@maxkonyi 4 ай бұрын

Agreed! Thanks for mentioning the essay. I'll check it out for sure.

@shekharkalley7431 7 ай бұрын

music is group of notes.notes which creats nice and pleasent to ears.is real music.simple and short explanation.....

@maxkonyi 7 ай бұрын

That may be true but it doesn't actually say what music IS. If someone had never experienced music, this wouldn't get them any closer. Also, there is a lot of music which is not made of notes/pitches!

@TheMusikalChristian 4 ай бұрын

I watched bits and pieces of you video game compositions. I never wrote such music before, but I do have a taste. Is there a plugin that really reminds you of Final Fantasy VII specifically? It's OST is very unique in the sense that it's not too retro sounding, but it's not very organic either. If you're not familiar... I suggest listening to the Final Fantasy VII Main Theme.

@hz3701 7 ай бұрын

Music is "art in sound"

@maxkonyi 7 ай бұрын

Maybe true but doesn't get anyone closer to knowing what music is 😎 what is you definition of "art"?

@glyph6757 4 ай бұрын

The term "baby listening" sounds very similar to a term popularized in Buddhism: "beginner's mind"

@maxkonyi 4 ай бұрын

Indeed!

@i-is-alive 8 ай бұрын

Do you have any course on ear training?

@maxkonyi 8 ай бұрын

Coming soon...

@i-is-alive 8 ай бұрын

What’s the expected time?

@maxkonyi 8 ай бұрын

@@i-is-alive Need to finish up work on a couple related things that will be used in the course, including my circle visualizer. Hoping to get the course released in the next month or two...