Adrian's comments are noteworthy... I was just thinking the other day how workplace environments have changed over the last decade. As 'open offices' and laptop / docking cultures manifest (now it seems, just about everywhere), there is an increasing clamour for private space. Sony Walkman's success was ascribed to so-called personalisation and we have not only jived through those times but have made it better with Ipod. Then, we have Zune that goes social, but not many people tag along except Sony 'Walkman' phones ironically with their dual-headphones mobile phones in the backdrop of succesful network products like Squeezebox with its duets...
The bigger question in this very very interesting thread (the last one i remember was 'whats ur elevator pitch, mr/ ms. interaction designer) is that what's really happening on the music front in our daily lives, daily working lives... yes, pop is out, ambient / trip-hop is in, headphones are in, speakers are out... to put it more contextually, music while commuting, music in workplace, music at home, music in restaurant or a disc... what about music in public spaces... karaoke is totally totally in i guess hongkong, china, india.. what about music in workplaces? u need noise-free headphones these days to focus on work... interesting thread for sure, since we are talking about music - something that changes (with context and time) yet remains the same (in terms of what we may want out of it or what it means to us or how it rescues us). are we losing human contact when we shut out so that we could work on stuff that enables human contact? or what... i mean, we spend more time working than jogging, but strangely it's the same headphones plugged in our ears eh! rgds mayur On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Bengi Turgan <[email protected]> wrote: > SOMA FM - Secret Agent > Great stimuli > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
