As a good friend said, "it's like listening to an old part of you. A part that was missing."
There is this curious experience of listening to an old track of mine when I meet new people and I tell them I am a musician.
And while not much new music is coming these days as I am occupied with other areas in my life, I do miss making new music and my repertoire of tracks has grown over the years. And so I found, listening back to old tracks of mine conjures up remarkable experiences with a unique feel to them.
It's like: why do we as musicians make tracks? Maybe because we want to listen to a piece of music that is floating around in the ether that has not been made yet, that has not yet materialized by a conscious conduct (like a human being), and so this "piece of the energetic puzzle" has been crafted by me, enveloped by specific circumstances at that place and time within my human existence, but nevertheless carrying a resonant quality that expresses something essential to the unfolding of the whole over long durations of Earthly time.
Listening back to these old tracks of mine I can disregard all the engineering choices I would do differently today, and just appreciate the energetic quality of the piece of music, as well as that aspect of my own shard of the soul that is somehow living on in that piece of music for eternity. It's like a glimpse into another time and place. A different vibration from the now of now.
It's a marvelous experience for me as a human being, forgetting all about the circumstances of a track and then rediscovering it after years of not listening to it.
It almost seems like the more I mature the more new qualities these tracks seem to represent as I listen back to them today. Like a time-machine-experience where correlating insights can come from most recent experience on the perceived linear time strand, though I am now in my past re-relating pieces of music from back then to a future point in time I have just come from. To re-listen.
If that makes any sense in words^^
Sidenote: rocki.app is launching, purporting to be a re-launch of my former favorite music-streaming platform choon that went out of business months ago. I am hopeful, everything seems to work and I'm happy to say my tracks are online and available once more:
https://www.rocki.app/users/paradigm_prospector/
If you want to do some time-traveling to old aspects of me being forged in music, here is your chance! Really excited to see if rocki.app will be more successful than its predecessor.
Enjoy <3
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