ABSTRACT
Despite the well-known observation that music is an important part of social life, not only for the youth, as confirmed in surveys, it doesn’t seem to be an issue the walkers in sensobiographic pairs would mention spontaneously. On the contrary: testimonies on music are typically induced by interventions of researchers. Using critical overview of the walking methodologies, the chapter is reviving accumulated “praxis” and “poiesis” of the everyday. It presents selected occasions of speaking about music from Turku, Brighton, and Ljubljana, covering longer periods of time and various occasions. The most valuable are testimonies from her youth by the oldest research participant in Ljubljana, Frančiška, who vividly expressed her memories of early jazz in the leading Ljubljana jazz venue from the 1930s. Affective experience of music (and dance) is not necessarily related to the specific place, neither to verbalised memories. It is a matter of transitory excitement easily lost in space and time, confirming music’s paradoxical synthesis of its experiencing in consecutive transitory moments and relating them to eternity. Human sensorium, observed in walking, is extraordinarily complex and does not allow privileging of any sensory code.
