hi, same thing here at Tau (France, Toulouse) we started plugging a pair of speakers to one laptop some weeks ago and now the cable jump from one laptop to another depending on who's here what's been played, the mood etc ...
I think (and have experienced) that background music do help to keep a better mood around and probably allows people to "forget" about people based noise that come with a filled space (people walking, whispering, phone ringing, doors opening etc ...) on a practical manner : I've been looking at github hubot and play (https://github.com/play/play/) for some time and plan to test such a setup (related article : http://zachholman.com/screencast/play/). Z. Holman article is also interesting on the human side of having a common, community managed, music stream going on. you could also use things like spotify and deezer to share, edit and play playlists I suppose, and from my university's years I remember tons of open source projects to handle "web based" jukeboxes anyone got tips about the "hardware" side to setup this ? small form factor pc, media friendly pcs ? TR On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Tom Brandt <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it is a good thing, depending on what it is. We have a couple of > members who play quite a bit of music over the big speakers from their own > collections or from rdio, spotify, etc. When they are not here it seems > pretty quiet. > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:34 PM, RedRokk <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective >> on. >> >> We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington. >> Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2 >> or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music to >> the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is >> developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to >> make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or >> week. >> >> This is a very interesting research study done on noise levels. It >> suggests a specific level of noise actually encourages more collaboration >> and creativity: >> http://news.illinois.edu/news/12/0514NoiseCreativity_RaviMehta.html >> >> What are your thoughts on playing music in the background? >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Tyler Byrd | President >> Red Rokk Interactive, Inc >> >> C: (360) 920-2462 | O: (360) 747-7401 | F: (954) 867-1177 >> [email protected] | www.RedRokk.com >> >> Video Introduction to Red Rokk: http://youtu.be/5XRSUn__jow >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/-/rRsepfh4iJQJ. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > > > > -- > twb > member, Workantile > @twbrandt > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- Thomas Riboulet +33 (0) 698 926 057 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
