Re: music listening styles

[Alexander Refsum Jensenius <a.r.jensenius@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As a classical (and later jazz) pianist [...], I have no problems  
switching between a more analytic mode and a more emotional mode when  
listening to music. I think this depends very much on the situation  
and the music being played, e.g. listening to muzak in a shopping  
centre, free jazz in a club, acousmatic music at a conference, and  
classical piano students playing their exam concerts.

Just to mention a perspective that has not been touched upon much so  
far: What about the bodily aspects of "listening"? In my research  
group we have been studying how people "listen" through body movement  
(e.g. air instrument performance, dancing, sound-drawing) within a  
framework of embodied music cognition. More information here:
http://musicalgestures.uio.no
http://www.arj.no/research

Cheers,
Alexander