Boston Concerts

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Live concerts: a fulfilling experience for all senses

Article by Francesca Tessarollo

Attending a live concert is a fulfilling experience in different senses, and it can be interesting from different points of view. Summer is the season of live concerts and big festivals, and in summer the chances of attending a concert or a music show multiply in comparison to other seasons. A concert or a music festival certainly are very fulfilling experiences, in many senses, for many music lovers, as they meet the desire of both listening to your favorite musicians playing live and of seeing how high-level music instruments and accessories, like se electronics microphones and krk monitors, work. Attending a live concert means being in close contact with the music and the artists you are used to listen to through CD or MP3 players, which are certainly very useful but which cannot convey the same energy and emotions that only a live show can convey, not even if they are very sophisticated. A live concert, indeed, is not only made of music, and you do not listen to it just with your ear, you feel it with all of your senses, with your heart and mind. A live concert is so exciting first of all because it overcomes or at least minimizes distances between music and listeners, artists and spectators: when musicians are on stage the notes coming from their voices and instruments do not pass through any technological device and come to spectators with neither filters nor mediations, transported only by air. And this makes a huge difference! Certainly the sound quality that can be found in many tools that we use to listen to music might be higher than the quality of the music that you can listen to live, since acoustics is not always excellent and the buzz and other factors might undermine the music performance, but we can claim that this is what can make you appreciate a live concert more than the solitary listening to music through a CD or an MP3 player. Because the good features of a concert are also sweat, the weariness that comes from standing, jumping and dancing for hours, the chorus of voices that gets high when musicians start playing the most popular songs and that almost covers the voice of the singer. However, a concert is not only made of sounds, sounds that are not always clear as they mingle with the voices and emotions of people, a concert is also made of the sight of the musicians that play their professional instruments and accessories on stage, like novation players or moog pedals, which most of us do not know and which help creating a special frame on stage, of the sight of the faces and eyes of the other spectators, in which you can almost recognize your emotions and feelings, the sight of the sea of hands that rise as if they were trying to grab the notes of the most beautiful songs also with fingers. A concert is hearing, sight and touch, in the sense of contact with the other spectators, which create a sort of unique thing hold together by music, a group of people that do not know each other but that are united by a common passion and emotion. A concert fulfills our senses, but in a deeper way it is also able to convey feelings that few other things can convey to the same extent. So get ready for the long summer of live concerts, because the season of music has finally started!

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