MICRO: Why We've Lost Our Connection With Music (And How Listening Brings It Back) | East Forest

In this Adventures Through The Mind micro, musician East Forest explains why so many of us have lost our connection with music, and how listening can bring it back.

East Forest explains how recorded music turned us from makers into consumers, and why most people have handed their own musicianship over to "professionals." We also discuss AI-generated songs, AI artists slipped into playlists, and what happens when the artist isn't human anymore. Finally, he makes the case for active listening, simply doing one thing at a time, and I share how a deep-listening circle let me hear a Nirvana song as if for the first time.

(00:00) Has humanity lost its connection to music? (01:18) We consume more than we create (02:33) AI music and the peak content era (05:17) When the artist isn't human anymore (06:58) Is listening a creative act? (08:10) Active vs passive listening (10:00) Feeling is the language of music (10:24) Hearing Nirvana for the first time, again (12:24) Outro

This is a clip from 'Music for Mushrooms (and the Nearly-Lost Art of Being Moved by Music) | East Forest', Adventures Through The Mind 201.

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