The thing I find so interesting about music is your ears are used to listen to the music, but to understand it your mind subconsciously stimulates areas of your brain that gives your body certain sensations allowing you to feel emotions. Everyone's brain is different which allows for various interpretations of pieces as the base music stimulates different emotions. It's similar to how someone can understand another person not just through hearing the words but also seeing the body language of a that person. We hear the notes, but to understand its intent we feel the emotions that it stimulates and the vibes it creates within our own minds. It's really a concept that's so interesting to think about
Hey man, it's always nice to see you upload. Although I no longer watch youtube as much as much as I used to. I always felt like that I had a vested interest in the well being of this channel. Meeting and talking to you in person was always something quite special to me. In regards to musical interpretation, I very much agree with the significant of the composer's and player's intent in which the audience's ability to understand your intent stems from our desire to be understood, but also watching the audience engage with a work organically is also very much desired as well. I think its also interesting how being a piano player has affected how I listen to music. For me, its not only an auditory experience, or a visual one when context is granted, but also a tactile one due to part of me always imagining what it is like to play the piece. For example, I think listening to Liszt's Mephisto Waltz is a very tactile experience in spite of me not having the skill to play that piece. I still imagine the experience of "playing" it.
@@WattKeys I can't pin point to something exactly. But it changing the "shape" of the music in my head sometimes. The first thing that immediately comes to mind is the Ballade 1 Coda, which to me the sheets look significantly different than what it sounds like if that makes sense. I think it shows how the layers were constructed or something like that
Some very interesting questions you are bringing up here! One of your first points was about lyrics and words in music; and quite frankly I must say that my brain is somehow incapable of processing and listening to the actual meaning of the words - all I hear is the melody and rhythm sung by the human voice, as if it's just "another instrument", which is why it almost makes no difference to me what language a song is sung in (of course, different languages lead to different music, but that's besides the point I'm trying to make here). I also liked your thought provoking points about interpreting music and how knowing the author's/composer's intents plays a role. I often find myself able to enjoy music all by itself and without additional context assuming the music isn't too shallow, but it is undeniable that more often that not, this additional information puts the music in an entirely different light, gives it so much more depth and allows to take note of intricacies that might otherwise be completely hidden. As a result, I really share your points on composing music where you want to try and provide this context to your pieces so that the motivated and invested individuals can hopefully extract more out of it, but at the same time there should still be room for your own interpretations. My own compositions nearly always stem from the urge to capture a specific emotion which usually stems from a specific moment/period in my life, so I try to capture that in the youtube description, but at the same time I am hoping that listeners and performers alike still have room to paint their own worlds. Lastly, you mention the discouraging numbers on RU-vid ... and I am somewhat relieved to hear it's not just me. Lately, the view counts have been almost concerningly low and I am observing this trend across the board with all our fellow pianists as well. It is still great to see the love and appreciation some folk put into their videos, and I am all here for it! This also goes for you my dear WattKeys! I still remember fondly when I stumbled upon your Shield Hero ED2 cover (3 years ago ... ouch) from which moment onward I just knew that your passion for music was sincere; and it always shines through in all your videos, be it piano performances or other! So keep up the good work buddy, and make sure to not lose that passion! Looking forward to the next chapter :D
