“Philo is a word we might translate as ‘to adore, to love’. Sophy isn’t merely ‘wisdom’, it is more the sense and connotations of ‘seeing better, more deeply, profoundly’. The thing that is surprising is that »music is »a way of seeing. Of being. Not merely sounds. It changes everything.

The making of and listening to music … is -sophy”

— fragment of a conversation