What are your listening habits?

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[indutrial]

I do almost all of my listening on the Ipod unfortunately, simply because I'm out and about so damned much lately. My best listening usually involves going for a lengthy walk in an area where there are no cars or noisy people to divert my attention from the music. Sometimes I bring my scores with me to the park and read along. My playlist is huge, since I have one of those older 60GB monsters and my files are almost all 192-320 kbps.

When I'm driving, I usually listen to 'easier' music, like electronica, rock, game music, or soundtracks. I find it really difficult to keep my mind with a lot of the modern music I like when I'm racing around behind the wheel.

When I'm listening to classical stuff, I always listen to complete pieces and I try to really internalize the piece before I move on to something different, even if it means relistening 3-4 times.

[Petter]

ECM records, Bill Evans, minimalstic works, maybe some Mozart, Rosalyn Turecks Bach, calm music to put me to sleep. I work as a mailman so I fill up my mp3 player with music I want to learn more about and just listen casually to it while doing my job hoping IŽll relate to it later. Now if being a postman wasnŽt so physical demanding  .

[rachfan]

Lately, I've been having fun combing through YouTube to hear some of the artists who are no longer with us.  For example, last night I spent considerable time listening to Vladimir Sofronitsky playing Scriabin.  I find listening to the "old school" artists intriguing, educational, and enjoyable. 

[dan101]

I'm a car radio listener (I have to budget my time carefully). Classical stations that I listen to generally give a nice variety of music from different eras.

[slobone]

I listen mostly on the computer while I'm doing other things, and I actually listen to very little classical music, maybe 10% of the time. Right now I'm working through the top 300 Billboard hits of 1964, and having a great time. I also listen to a lot of stuff on Youtube.

[gyzzzmo]

I hardly listen music. If i listen, its usually because my girlfriend put up some music. Sometimes i download/youtube some music if im studying a piece, but only if its hard to sightread.

[slobone]

Yeah, if I'm learning a new piece I like to listen to a couple of versions to get the general idea of tempo, etc. but I try not to do it too much so I don't start copying the interpretations.

[retrouvailles]

I listen to a lot of music of all different kinds. I don't repeat the same thing more often than 2 days apart or so, mainly because I have so much music to choose from and my moods change all the time. When I am learning something, I don't listen to it at all, so I can develop an interpretation that comes more from me, rather than the person playing the piece. Still, I listen to music much much more than I watch TV or play video games. I am lucky if I get an hour of the latter two, whereas I can listen to music as much as 5-6 hours a day, maybe even more. It is relatively easy for me to pull that off because I am doing something else while listening to music about the half the time (homework, surfing the interwebs, etc).

[franzliszt2]

If it's piano music I tend to listen once, and then if I like it enough, I buy the score and play it. If it's not piano, I just listen obsessivly, buy the scores, play it on a piano, and buy loads of recordings. I have thousands of cd's, so I listen to music all the time, on ipod, or in room.

[gyzzzmo]

If it's piano music I tend to listen once, and then if I like it enough, I buy the score and play it. If it's not piano, I just listen obsessivly, buy the scores, play it on a piano, and buy loads of recordings. I have thousands of cd's, so I listen to music all the time, on ipod, or in room.

Try downloading music, alot better for your finances :p

[franzliszt2]

No I hate downloading music, unless I am insanely desperate. I think it's an insult to the artist to dowload or copy music, and peopel shouldn't be so cheap and download things. Plus, I liek to have the cd's, so I can play them on my cd player, and just to have them. Also, it is much faster if somebody wants to borrow it.

CD shopping in the HUGE HMV's on Oxford street is just amazing as well...it's an excting day out! Get off at Bond street, go shopping in the 1st HMV, then get lunch at Selfridges, then walk to the HMV past oxford st tube, then go to Chappels and buy music. Amazing day out, good cds, good food. Better than downloading!

[gyzzzmo]

No I hate downloading music, unless I am insanely desperate. I think it's an insult to the artist to dowload or copy music, and peopel shouldn't be so cheap and download things. Plus, I liek to have the cd's, so I can play them on my cd player, and just to have them. Also, it is much faster if somebody wants to borrow it.

CD shopping in the HUGE HMV's on Oxford street is just amazing as well...it's an excting day out! Get off at Bond street, go shopping in the 1st HMV, then get lunch at Selfridges, then walk to the HMV past oxford st tube, then go to Chappels and buy music. Amazing day out, good cds, good food. Better than downloading!

I dont have a problem with downloading. Especially classical CD's are rip-offs and have ancient pricing. I wanted to buy a double Cd from Argerich's preludes, i asked the seller why the hell it was 42 euro's. The guy answered me, 'because its a double cd ofcourse'.... (like cd's cost anything these days).
Also, i dont think that pianists/producers have to live in giant castles because they took the effort to record something.

[franzliszt2]

I dont have a problem with downloading. Especially classical CD's are rip-offs and have ancient pricing. I wanted to buy a double Cd from Argerich's preludes, i asked the seller why the hell it was 42 euro's. The guy answered me, 'because its a double cd ofcourse'.... (like cd's cost anything these days).
Also, i dont think that pianists/producers have to live in giant castles because they took the effort to record something.

They should be payed for the work they produce. These pianists have trained since early childhood to reach the level of artistry they have aquired. So I don't think 42 euros is really that much money, and they deserve to be payed for their work.

I would be annoyed if I recorded something, and cheap people were downloading my cd.

[indutrial]

They should be payed for the work they produce. These pianists have trained since early childhood to reach the level of artistry they have aquired. So I don't think 42 euros is really that much money, and they deserve to be payed for their work.

I would be annoyed if I recorded something, and cheap people were downloading my cd.

Do you actually think that the composer or performer is going to see a considerable percentage of that money. The CD industry, just like its equally bass-ackwards fellow industry, the sheet music companies, is collapsing under its own stupid conservative behaviors. People download scores and albums because the prices are total bullcrap and not even close to the price of the raw materials involved. If so many of them are pissed that downloading is a problem, why not stop relying entirely on physical media and start selling lossless digital with a slight price decrease.

Isn't it also pretty standard for a classical record company to expect the artist to supply a fully-recorded and polished master recording (not to mention already paid for) before they even get into talks about putting the record out? Whenever I've released discs, I've never given a crap who distributes it and how it's distributed (whether via downloads or burnt discs, etc...) because any distribution = some amount of exposure, and that's worth more than the 15 cents on the dollar that you might (if you're lucky) get from a disc. Hell, maybe after hearing the illegally-copied disc they'll come check out your live performances, buy a t-shirt, etc...