Does earsense feature only “classical” music?
Presently, yes. Classical music, in the broad sense of Western Art Music, is a vast terrain spanning hundreds of years of important artistic creativity, complexity and history. It is the central mission of earsense to chart certain threads and highlights of this rich tradition in an effort to show that it is not just “Classical music” but a diverse and multi-faceted universe of musical experience that is vital, fulfilling and inexhaustible Classical music appears to be a specific, even limited genre largely because of its lack of currency in contemporary popular culture. It is further pigeonholed by unfortunate and negative associations with class structure, wealth, race, snobbery, intellectualism, religion and history, what to speak of television commercials for diamonds, luxury automobiles and investment brokers. Because of its longer time frame (a movement in a classical composition may last up to 15 minutes, the entire piece an hour) and its relative abstraction (no dancing, videos
