From external music to the “bedroom music”: pedagogical reflections on lo-fi aesthetics and youthful sensibilities

Abstract

Sounds and melodies, listening to a music piece, are experiences that solicit deep resonances, with both sensorial and physical, emotional and inner reverberations. As sound, music is not only a vector of communication but a complex anthropological dimension in which personal, cultural, social, aesthetic-artistic instances converge, recalling the identities and generations that enjoy it. The experience of contact with music proves to be an interesting field of research for pedagogical reflection, to approach the most recent changes of young people. The article aims to investigate some of the main features of the digital musical microcosm experienced as a search for a physical and symbolic place of sensibility and hospitality of themselves. Music is not necessarily a search for precision of sounds, but as possibility of communicating the the imperfect and vulnerable dimensions of oneself, in response to the artificial perfection of consumer society, to rediscover personal uniqueness.