How to listen to music (and nature)

In this video the great pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim explains how to best approach music as a listener:



I think his advice also works when observing and contemplating nature but instead of catching a note to follow an entire symphony look into a bee that flies by or a gust of wind hitting leaves...

“the more you give yourself to it, the more you will get back”

I have been meaning to take more time to just listen to music and do nothing else. This might be the encouragement I needed! Thank you!

I loved when he said that music can make you feel things you can't feel otherwise in part because it is happy and sad at the same time. It reminded me of nature and the cycle of life where both life and death happen simultaneously.

I think you're right, the best way to listen to nature is to give ourself to her!

A beautiful reminder that 'music' can exist in anything that we do and is not just limited to sounds, but is a conglomerate of all the senses.
The movie August Rush was a good example of how this could be demonstrated in a person's life.

Andrés Bernal wrote:In this video the great pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim explains how to best approach music as a listener:

I think his advice also works when observing and contemplating nature but instead of catching a note to follow an entire symphony look into a bee that flies by or a gust of wind hitting leaves...

“the more you give yourself to it, the more you will get back”

Thank you, Andrés, for this video and for your corresponding observations about nature. I agree with the quote entirely. During the pandemic I took to performing on my instruments in the forest; the birds and rustling leaves became fellow musicians, and some humans enjoyed it too. I’ve just discovered the composer, Max Richter, whose music is simple and very emotive - just like nature. He can be found on YouTube. Here’s a video of me playing music in the forest:  

Well... I think music has different tones and notes depending on the individual or...individual's ....deafness.
Nature or not, both can be aggravating or pleasant,  regardless "how" one would like to listen.

No one will ever convince me that screeching squirrels, screeching blue jays or screaming foxes in the middle of the night are music. Unless they're deaf! LOL