Hi,
Film, and theater, in the past 50 years has been huge about the other parts of it, that also add to the atmosphere and general ambience of the whole thing.
Because of it, for example, everyone has seen the incredible sets that Beyruth used to have with their amazing lighting designs that every rock band throws on the musicians haphazardly. Or you have seen how music can be used to jump off your seat, and all you had to do a few years back is go see "2001, A Space Odyssey" at the Cinerama Dome, or equivalent, and then later a pair of movies were unreal and incredible when it came to sound and effects in terms of getting your attention. Both "Apocalypse Now" and "The Deerhunter" had you totally shook up by the way some of these effects and sounds were used, and it wasn't only the helicopter going from left to right, that even Pink Floyd used more than once!
In my early days with thie stuff, we did have a friend that was blind and he was nutz and then some. He would hear something on the radio on Sunday night, and Monday morning stick his cane out on 101 and hitchhike to Van Nuys and go to the record shop to get one of those new things, and then hitchhike back ... no biggie for him. Or we would be at his place, and he loved joking about us always needing some lights and blow up his electrical bill. But his listening attention was, indeed, deadly, not to mention his tactile sensations.
Is it that we're lazy and do not pay attention to what's around us?
Or is it simply "too much" that we can not "register" it all?
My thoughts have always been along the side of the middle of this equation. Meditation has a way to help focus your hearing as well, with the side effect that you endup having to deal with the over-abundance of "information" that you all of a sudden get, but can not make sense of ------ HAHAHA ----- there is the problem right there.
We always think that we have to "know" and "understand" everything, including why we sleep and why the water goes down the faucet and why babies cry, and why you need to get off once in a while ... and we're not simply capable of "letting go" that mental state that has to define everything, until it kills it, and has no idea what it is anymore.
It is the same with most music and artists. To me, an artist, continues t evolve and get more into these areas, whereas the Rolling Stones will just look for another riff for a song, and that's that. Some folks think there is just as much "art" in the nothingness of it all as there is in the fullness of it all.
It is what it is. This is what life and living is all about. Questioning it becomes an exercise in futility, and in fact, an old wise man used to say something like ... the day you do not have a question, is the day you "Know"!