Abstract
Certain global problems, enhanced by the experience of the pandemic, reveal a profound crisis in listening in general and specifically in music. Starting from the ancient Hebrew word Shema (listening), its interpretations, extensions and hermeneutical derivations, this article attempts to awaken reflection on the implications, potentials and meanings of listening as a creative and emotional perceptual entity. Listening becomes a possible space of resistance to the current inertia of the equal, the superficial and the anonymous.