I enjoy music, all kinds of music. I spend a fair amount of time thinking about music. I can't seem to write about it. I can analyze lyrics with the best of them. I can discuss the processes that made the music. I can talk about the sounds, of music. I listen before I watch, and I listen with all my experience of music I imagine what the musicians look like, what the band logo is, how the music video plays out. I am almost always wrong. I'm not just a little wrong, like the singer's eye are blue and not grey, or the guitarist is playing an Ibanez and not a ESP. No, i am way off.
Some of the best voices I've heard came from some very homely faces. Some of the most talented musicians I've heard were not much to look at. That is not too say there wasn't anything to look at, or that there was something repulsive in the appearance. The motion of making music is always interesting to me. The expression, or lack their of is interesting. It is also secondary to my mind.
I am listening to the music, i do not see it, i hear it. What I see my add something to the experience, but I do not see how it would subtract. My eyes are subordinate to my ears when it comes to music. The clothes do not effect the tone.
Yet, it unavoidable that there is an image associated with a sound, and our eyes often deny our ears there say. We cannot be happy with good music, we need someone good too look at as well. How much music has that cost us? If we are letting eyes see the music, what else are we judging by its appearance?
