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Music

First notes on listening

Music is the art I consume the most and think about the least. It's always on, which might be exactly the problem — I hear everything and listen to nothing.

So, same exercise as the museum: one piece, start to finish, doing nothing else. Noticing when my attention drifts and what pulls it back.

First discovery: repetition changes the piece. The third listen is not the first. Nobody is surprised by this, I know — but knowing it and experiencing it on purpose are different things. That difference is what this whole notebook is about.