Millefeuille, gestalt and slicing reality

I listen the the first episode of Variations (See https://rwm.macba.cat/en/buscador/radio/serie/variaciones-9458). I hear mid twentieth century avant garde music: early sampling…

I go for a walk by the canal (do nothing!)

The image of millefeuille comes my head (subconscious thinking…):

I think of how music is layered. I think of the notion of gestalt. Our minds perceive wholes as much as parts: but when we learn, we have to break down. We slice the millefeuille of music in different ways to understand it, and then hopefully it reassembles in our minds, and becomes part of us (or we of it).

So, as we learn to make pastry and creme patissiere and so on, we learn harmony, melody. And when we eat, we critique each in turn, but it is the whole that seduces us, and persists in the memory.

The same applies when we analyse dance, or poetry: we consider rhyme, scansion, lexis… but the whole is the point, not the analysis.

So, to learn to hear, we learn learn the layers. Crudely, traditionally: melody, harmony, rhythm: but also intonation, dynamics, timbre, sound.

Remixing could consist of recombining elements (from different songs, tunes etc, like Suzuki method).

User should be able to choose which slice to explore: to encourage exploration.