Being almost 60 I find I just keep adding to my listening experience, always open to listen to something new or something old I’ve yet to experience. Music is sort of like going down a river, I try not to get nostalgic, I’ve a thousand discs or more from the 70/80/90s which I have not listened to in years, but my thirst and curiosity to hear something fresh, new and challenging to the senses has not diminished, always 3 steps forward 1 step back. In the last few years literally just discovered Radiohead, the Notwist, Noah and the Whale etc who I’ve given a lot of air play at home and in the car, but a typical listening session might start with some Depeche Mode or Kraftwek followed by a string quartet, then a bit of Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Art Ensemble of Chicago and some 60s Yousef Lateef, later some Verdi opera, Stavinsky, Stockhausen, George Crumb or Sigur Rós followed up by Rammstein (modern opera?) or some György Ligeti and vintage Klaus Schultz. Keeping it Canadian with some Feist or Sarah Harmer.
For a bit of nostalgia, Todd Rundgren, Stones, Jethro Tull, early Peter Hammill or Cat Stevens thrown in a blue moon.
Like seeing Fripp and ENO putting out new and engaging works, or an aging John Cale still performing live.
Cheering things up with Ian Curtis and Joy Division, or Comsat Angels and The Sisters of Mercy.
And of course my 12 year old keeps me abreast with the likes of Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez et al.
Funny though, in my 20s and 30s I spent most of my time listening to classical and the “avant garde, being a composer of modern electro-acoustic music myself, so I thought I’d see myself latter in life curling up with a good book with some non descriptive classical music in the back-round, truth is I still want music to challenge me, to be non predictable and at reasonably loud levels, never sitting in the background. The actual choice of artists continually change and I’m not going out without kicking and screaming and always with something new.
So...... "Have you changed you favourite music genre when you got older?"
Hard to say, I try to listen to everything so I do not believe I've ever had a genre as such, it's all just organized sound to me, I either like it or not.
Robert
