Are you a moth or a cat?
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I’ve opened the box and put the last CD into a CD-player. I’m considering pushing the play button any time now.
When you do, I’d love to hear your comments in the Sarde thread.
I am generally a cat.
The closest I get to being a moth is a single composer during a certain period, e.g., Morricone during his partnership with Nicolai, or a single composer in a particular genre, e.g., Herrmann sci-fi and fantasy.
The nature of film scoring means that even my favorite composers will deliver certain scores that I would never enjoy as a standalone listen.
The closest I get to being a moth is a single composer during a certain period, e.g., Morricone during his partnership with Nicolai, or a single composer in a particular genre, e.g., Herrmann sci-fi and fantasy.
The nature of film scoring means that even my favorite composers will deliver certain scores that I would never enjoy as a standalone listen.
Not sure that’s meant as the dividing line between “moth” or “cat” as defined by Thor, of moths concentrating on certain aspects and cats roaming around, as obviously, a moth can concentrate on a certain composer as much as on a certain type of film or period, and a cat can roam along with a composer across many different genres and types of music.
My references have been Savorer or Sampler. The latter sounds reductive or facile, but I mean it more in the adventurous sense (and it comes from approaches to food). In food, I am a savorer. I will eat the things I love anytime, every day. They do not dull, but deepen. I will know my favorites richly, every lovely leaf on each tree.
Samplers know so much of what’s out there. They can map the world, and know right where to go for anything. My aunt is a sampler. She loves what she’s having, and it doesn’t lose flavor the next time, but she so enjoyed the fresh experience, and knows that something else, just as great, is out there too, and she doesn’t want to miss out on the discoveries.
…I’m a savorer with music, too, it seems. Some of that is self-protection; I will dive deeply if I love a thing, I haven’t the freedom of time and costs to deep dive into very many things, and I want the freedom to fall in love.
Some of that is self-protection; I will dive deeply if I love a thing, I haven’t the freedom of time and costs to deep dive into very many things
That’s exactly it. I don’t have the time to “deep dive” into all kinds of things, my time is very limited actually. (Of course, literally, we all have 24h/day, but I can’t spend my entire time with music… music for me is “regeneration”.) But I do like to deep dive into certain things.
Also, as I said, I’m more artist/composer oriented, not so much film oriented when it comes to listening to music. If I like a certain author, chances are I like more of their books, if I like a certain composer, chances are I like more of their music, and that regularly turns out to be so.
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