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Discuss “Paperhouse”

“Hey, what is this guy going to tell me that I don’t already know?”

Okay, on some level, I’m not going to tell you anything — it’s just a reminder. I find that some of my friends don’t know how to sit down and appreciate music, and then they get confused when they don’t enjoy it nearly as much as I do.

I’m kind of done with the article now. Sit down and enjoy it. Good music is usually good because it rewards intense concentration and repeated scrutiny by getting better.

Musician and theorist Brian Eno once said, “Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” Note that he made that a defining characteristic...

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