The Art of Listening

The idea of art as communication is a fundamental aspect of Western aesthetics, as is the resulting interconnection between form and content. Music is considered a language of emotions, and is sound forms in movement. This is its only point in common with the idea of art in the Eastern world. Eastern Art communicates through visual effects in movements (ideograms) rather than through logos, the simple, sculptural, and thus inflexible, word.
Starting from Daoism, the authors of this book take us on an exciting journey through sound, vibration, listening and the effects of listening, its repercussions on energy and mind, locally and generally. This book is original in its form and content, with unexpected facets emerging in each part, and in the way each part unfolds. Its excellent introduction presents a both broad and synthetic vision of that complex philosophy of life that goes under the name of Daoism, a philosophy and religion often discussed, and equally often misrepresented, curtailed and falsified.