a DESCRIBE MUSIC thread. a game

**emanresu** · 07-27-2025, 09:50 AM

Describe a bit of music without any hint of harmony, notes and rhythm. None of that what could be written on paper and reproduced.

Just describe as it makes you feel. See if another person could figure out what the piece it is.

If you get the guess without adding any cultural hints, you get a point right there.

**emanresu** · 07-27-2025, 11:14 AM

i want that. dunno what it is but i want that

**emanresu** · 07-31-2025, 07:24 AM

Got 2 responses. I wonder what happened to them.

Btw. This thread is not cynical. I just feel that people who live in/by/for the music are even less aware how special music actually is, than the muggles.

**emanresu** · 10-11-2025, 12:26 PM

Bouncing it because this is the most important issue of all music.

Another angle: describe what is the reason you stay listening something?
the case: You are "browsing" hearing something new, why keep it on? Why did you seek it out afterwards, bookmarked?
Do you have a clear answer, explainable with plain words, "why"? Can you explain to other people why this one is great? with words... that doesn't focus on "because I feel this way"

**Bob_Ross** · 10-13-2025, 11:29 AM

Not sure if this is what OP is looking for, but fwiw:

When I was in grad school at the New England Conservatory ~30 years ago I attended a Master Class with composer Toru Takemitsu. At one point a student asked if Takemitsu could describe his compositional process, and he replied (I'm paraphrasing)

"I imagine I am walking through a garden, and I see an object in the distance that grabs my attention....perhaps a rock formation, or a tree. I try to describe the details of the object and how it appears from this perspective. Then I continue walking. Eventually I am farther along the path; perhaps closer to the object, or approaching it from a different side now. I try to describe the details of the object and how it appears from this new perspective now. I may continue to appreciate the object from other vantage points...or I may continue on my journey through the garden, maybe coming across other objects of interest, but eventually leaving the garden (possibly from the same location where I entered, or perhaps from a different egress altogether."

:::shrugs:::

There ya go, not a hint of harmony, notes, and rhythm.

**joe2758** · 10-13-2025, 12:03 PM

Strange, yet happy. A sense of being stuck in the wrong time in history. Playful. Colorful. Sense of being an outcast or misunderstood, but still doing what you love.

(the sense I get listening to this performer)