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Sean Carroll's Mindscape · September 9, 2024 · 70m
288 | Max Richter on the Meaning of Classical Music Today
Composer Max Richter on music, neuroscience, and meaning. His Sleep album (8 hours of music designed for overnight listening) bridges art and science. Richter sees music as a technology for accessing emotional states unavailable through language.
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Richter: composing and performing music requires the same quality of attention as meditation — sustained, non-judgmental presence. His Sleep project explicitly uses music as a meditation technology.
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Richter: unlike most pleasures, great music deepens with repeated listening. The 100th hearing of a Bach fugue reveals structures the first hearing missed. This is the opposite of hedonic adaptation.
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