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I feel like I used to like and hear more band/wind ensemble music, probably because I used to be in more bands and wind ensembles although I always secretly wished to be an orchestra musician. Besides brief stints with popular and rock music mostly because of friends (a friend needed me to analyze some Radiohead songs for a report he was doing and I transcribed and harmonized some friends songs too) I have basically always stayed an avid listener of classical music. When I joined my first online music community I got the chance to orchestrate and rearrange many fellow composers organ and piano pieces which was a blast and overall, I thought, a really successful collaboration. I think I was probably more open to more experimental music in the past. I don't know which composer said this but he said that he has been a composer and musician for over 20 years, so how can he expect an audience to understand his music on first hearing? I think I've grown to believe that all music is intricately constructed - even music from the classical era and pop music and yet we understand those upon first hearing - so why shouldn't we expect to be able to understand all music in the same manner? Anyways - I don't know if that's on topic for this thread but that's my opinion.