Your listening habits II: Do you conduct?

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

I heard () people like to conduct while listening to classical. Maybe a kind of expression, like heavy metalists do headbanging...
Do you?

[MN Dave]

Do you?

[Daedalus]

I can't resist doing some 'air conducting' to a high tempo piece, or maybe a up beat march or something. I find myself especially tempted into conducted Beethoven and Mahler symphonies  I bet I look like an absolutely idiot but I don't care 

D.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Yes, sometimes.

[MN Dave]

Yes, sometimes.

Me too.

[Don]

It never enters my mind to engage in any conducting.

[marvinbrown]

I heard () people like to conduct while listening to classical. Maybe a kind of expression, like heavy metalists do headbanging...
Do you?

 Only when I'm at the Bayreuther Festspiele Wurstwasser, only when I am at the Bayreuther Festpiele  .

 marvin

[MN Dave]

It's not like I stand up in the middle of the room and go crazy. I just sort of wave my hands around a little.

[Ephemerid]

I heard () people like to conduct while listening to classical. Maybe a kind of expression, like heavy metalists do headbanging...

LOL ~ I do, often when I am *listening* listening (rather than casually listening, like, say at work)-- but I never thought of it that way before!    

Its not exactly "conducting," not quite "dancing" either-- but its as if my hands were somehow following the "emotional curve" of the music.  

[Daedalus]

It's not like I stand up in the middle of the room and go crazy. I just sort of wave my hands around a little.

Yes, that's about all I do. I don't want to sound too crazy or anything! Honest, I'm not!  

D.

[MN Dave]

Yes, that's about all I do. I don't want to sound too crazy or anything! Honest, I'm not!  

D.

Your Mahler avatar gives you away. 

[Florestan]

I used to conduct a lot when I was younger. I even crafted myself a stick. Now I just wave my right hand or move my fingers like piano-playing.

[Daedalus]

Your Mahler avatar gives you away. 

By the way, though, I hate it when people do this at a concert. At the last concert I went to (Schoenberg Chamber Symphony 1, Mahler 7, Gergiev & LSO at Barbican in London) there was this stupid woman in front of me waving her hands around - very distracting. Luckily for me, she seemed to get bored after the Schoenberg piece and she spent the Mahler symphony reading the programme notes, which was still irritating but at least it wasn't as distracting. 

D.

[mahler10th]

I bellow and snort a bit.      But when I'm listening to music, it's different - depending on who the conductor is, I will conduct the orchestra with my face muscles alone (Rattle), sometimes I use an egg timer as a stick (Celibidache), and often simply stamp impatiently for the orchestra to keep up with me (a normal, self-made behaviour).
So as you can see, I love Classical Music and am perfectly normal about it.

[BachQ]

Do you?

Yes, along with airpiano .........

[springrite]

I chose "often", though it may well be "always".

I used to use a pen or chopstick, but now do it Stokie style.

But you should see me play air violin or cello lefthanded! I guess the air-bow is also a Stokie thing.

[gmstudio]

It's why I own hundreds of scores. 

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Hehe, the GMG air orchestra. So we've got air conductors, air pianists and air string instruments. Any airy wind instruments here? 

[prémont]

When listening to music I sit back in a comfortable chair and conduct myself seemly.

[Harry]

When listening to music I sit back in a comfortable chair and conduct myself seemly.

Yes I would agree with that too.