Signal wrote:
I have a dilemma with 'listener training'. As long term musicians
know, a well trodden path is hard to deviate from. You lose the
ability to listen holistically, and are more prone to reverting to
analytical listening patterns conducive to those musical activities.
You actually start to perceive sound and music in a different way than
"normal". I've known full time musicians who are unable to even listen
to music in a casual sense, anymore.

Now consider Arnie's listener training program. It helps instil
"paths" in peoples conscious awareness. That is exactly the point of
it. Whist this surely helps people to hone in on the particular
differences he's highlighting, once you are walking those "paths" it
becomes increasingly difficult to listen naturally and holistically
again...

Arnie's screams of anguish at the HE2005 debate clearly signifies
agreement with this point![Listener training is..] "a two edged
sword", he says.

So, assuming the above is taken as read - the more important question
is... if you 'program' your brain in this fashion, could it be that it
has a detrimental and/or *subversive* effect on your overall listening
skills and/or patterns of listening behaviour?


Clearly, the OP is in dire need of this:

http://tinyurl.com/6k77g

To a cleaner environment! ;-)