Listening to music on purpose after a long time. You guys do this everyday? Damn. 🧐
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Used to listen/collect CDs at midwit levels of interest/taste until about 20y ago when shift to mp3s broke the habit. Used to think I have musical anhedonia but I do get in the mood once every few years, and rarely a song on the radio (wife listens constantly) will catch my ear
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I have a new theory now. I’m the musical equivalent of monolingual. My brain got so wired so early to the just-tempered scale, I fundamentally can’t get into chromatic scale music except at a shallow intellectual level, and I lack the natural “ear” to be fluent in 2 scales.
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Ie unconsciously my brain got machine-code locked to just-tempered (raga) because that was almost 100% of what I heard till I was 10-12y old. And it’s just “off” enough from chromatic (western) that I can’t really adapt. And 90% of music around me is chromatic now, even Indian.
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I wonder if an auto-tune like conversion could be made for you and the millions of Indians like you in that situation.
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