La vida en mono
20/02/2008Impresionante e impactante artículo titulado Life in Mono en el que Nick Coleman narra cómo cambió su percepción del la música al despertar un día y notar que había perdido la audición de un oido:
Music to me has always been a handsome three-dimensional container, a vessel, as real in its way as a Scout hut or a cathedral or a ship, with an inside and an outside and subdivided internal spaces.
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What I hear now when I listen to music is a flat, two-dimensional representation. Where I used to get buildings, I now only get architectural drawings. I can interpret what the drawings show, but I don’t get the actual structure: I can’t enter music and I can’t perceive its inner spaces. I’ve never got much of an emotional hit from technical drawings. Here is what really hurts: I no longer respond to music emotionally.
Es revelador cómo percibimos tridimiensionalidad en conceptos que aparentemente son planos y de qué manera una merma de percepción sensorial le puede dar la vuelta y hacernos ver el mundo más plano y aburrido.
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