eBook Metaphysical hearing mobi epub

`My piano stands in the library. When I practise on it, I often yield to the temptation to glance at a book lurking on a shelf, which usually draws me away from playing and forces me first to read and then immediately afterwards to write. Thinking in music – which is, after all, a non-verbal activity – is hard to conceptualise and far removed from describing things in words. Yet quite often an extended period of wordless thinking, of a kind familiar to the practising musician (and to many a music lover), allows us to succumb to the illusion that we can, precisely through this wordless thinking, grasp some important aspect of human experience in its entirety. We then discover […] that everything is connected. Music is underpinned by mathematical structures, and at the same time it somehow enables sudden brief flashes of insight into the meaning of our lives.` Anna Chęćka