@Jacopo Ramonda this is how I listen as well.

@Joe Cabrera I suppose it makes sense for you? My question would be what the ‘engaging passive listeners’ part is in that? For me, having been on the recovery side of things, I’m not sure if hearing live music performed and this only being a performance and not connected to an activity of the recovery center program would make sense. I think the term ‘passive listener’ is a misnomer, because in my point of view nothing about music and listening is passive. Even the calming effect that music has through nerve endings connecting with muscles and hormone glands is a movement that makes way for something else to occur, like muscle relaxation and feelings that in themselves make way for other things. Who does not have memories of songs or melodies or tunes that they heard decades ago that had a certain effect INternally? If you’re talking about ‘engaging “passive” listeners’ you’re focusing on bringing together two seemingly contradictory words. I think it would be more effective to think about what kind of listeners you want to engage with , what kind of engagement is it that you desire and is it the same for every musician, what result the engagement would have to have to feel fulfilling for you as a musician, that sort of thing. Do you want a bigger audience, or a more specific audience, do you want some kind of interaction with listeners (engaging =interaction?), what kind of interaction, and do listeners know you want it, etc. do you want more sales, do you want to create connections etc. I think passive listeners is not an accurate term. Because music is movement. It’s not a static product and neither are people.

@Matt Whiteside hello Matt, what camera did you pick up?

@Peter Monrad nice to meet you from Portugal 🇵🇹 Which guitar do you play on ‘One day it will be OK’? 🙂