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The Acoustic-Mental Distance of the Listener to the Musical Sound-Space

Because of the conventional, instrument-oriented production of sound 1-3

the acoustic-mental
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distance of the listener to the musical sound-space,
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to the individual tone, becomes so great that he does not even expect an enlivened world of its own
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within the instrumental tone, just as, when looking from another solar system, one is unable to imagine that our small earth has room for so many individual human destinies.