That thing

In music the typical listening experience is in a car or at work or some show of a favorite band right?
Well i've spent a lot of time with not-so-typical music in the past year and studied with the basis that the sound's source is unimportant on many occassions. However different the listening experiences of bands and the studying its funny how much the things i've learned in studying apply to the typical listening.
First of all, when bands play most of the time everyone thinks, yea i know what that sound is its a bass drum or a snare head or you name it. The thing that many people are oblivious to are that many times in live performance and/or recording sure someone played a bass drum or snare head, but the sound that comes out is a desired triggered sound that is pre-recorded and used for that *near perfect* sound.
Also, many sounds that are live or real are now days easy to mix up with instruments because of processing and effects. In fact people have confused keyboard and guitar parts since the 80's rock music of van halen and i'm sure even before that. What this leads me to conclude is that new media music and pop music however different they seem in aesthetic tonality, really value the same thing, that being how something sounds. I've come to see that whatever "that thing" is that we like to here we don't care how it is generated.
It's funny what a year in new media does to your outlook. A couple years ago i would have just called anyone that wants anything to do with the WEIRD MUSIC a little goofy in the head, but now i see how the important sound aspects correlate perfectly with typical popular music.

Chris Lundeen