[MD] Ham on Esthesia

[Stephen Hannon]

[Ham]
Later, in the music analogy, you describe hearing an exceptional performance
of a known work as "experiencing DQ."  Since the piece being played is
familiar to me, it must be the performer's "fresh" interpretation, or my
response to it, rather than the composition, that accounts for my
experiencing DQ.  It that correct?  This would mean that my first hearing of
a piece is always a DQ experience, but that my seond hearing (unless it is
an extraordinary performance) would always be sq. because it is "dead in a
creative sense".

[Steve H]
Once a piece is recorded, that recording never changes in the way it
sounds (barring any weird technical effects).  If you keep listening
to the same recording, you get more static quality.  Any different
recording or performance gives you dynamic quality, that's why
concerts and plays still exist in spite of CDs and movies.  No two
concerts are ever the same, neither are any two performances of a
play.  By the way, most of my violin teachers I've had tell me that
most professional violinists can distinguish between different
violinists on different recordings of the same piece.

Random thought,
Steve H

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