New Ears Resolution

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

"Happy new ears" - John Cage

• Nicholas Cook has popularized the idea that music theory should be an imaginative enterprise --> where the goal is not to describe how people hear music, but to suggest how people might hear music.
  
  
• among the most exciting and memorable musical experiences
  -> hearing music in a wholly novel way
  
  
• Where do we find new ears?
  
  
  • in music itself
  • philosophers/scholars/critics
  • "recreational" drugs?
  • our own imaginations
  
  
• good theorists help us develop new ears