On Feb 18, 2007, at 12:16 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Unlike email spam, "musical spam" doesn't have any monetary cost to the receivers. It's just a psychological cost.
True, but it's a large one, and the ramifications, as you indicate below, are wide reaching and have a substantial detrimental effect on the lives of most serious musicians.
Chuck
The worst time of year for it is the Christmas holidays. The business district nearest me in Astoria, at Steinway and Broadway, has Christmas music playing over loudspeakers. Every time I go to my bank during that season, I wish I'd thought to bring ear plugs, because the music is such incredibly low quality that it drives me crazy. I fear, though, that there's nothing that can be done about it.
If more of us would ask that music be turned off in restaurants, (I do this often, and usually get told that they will turn it down but not off), fewer restaurants would have music. I let them know that I will vote with my wallet. It's lonely out here for those of us who make this sentiment known.
Chuck
Most people's relationships to music is much more passive than ours -- we musicians cannot help but end up being actively engaged by music, because it's the way we are trained as musicians. We wouldn't be good musicians if we weren't able to engage in that fashion. Unfortunately, for me at least, I can't really turn it off. I can't tune out music. But we're a minority. I found when teaching college students that most young people "listen" to tons of music of all different kinds, but never really *hear* what they are listening to. They are passive and teaching them active listening is one of the things I was aiming to do in my class. One student wrote to me at the end something to the effect that now that she'd taken my class whenever she listened to music she would find her mind picking out various aspects and analyzing them. I was thrilled by this, except that here conclusion was "It's very annoying." :) Yes, indeed -- it *is* very annoying at times. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
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