Richard Roberts
ZERO OHMS
"We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music."
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
People screening out people, crippling our own sensibility. That's a depressing scenario. It's not only the sounding atmosphere that is becoming overcrowded, similar enhancement/degradation happens to "time". Modern life is short of free time so someone invented the phrase "quality time" that can be used to motivate the screening out of activities labeled "of less quality". The bad effect this has on people is that they loose their natural ability for mental and emotional reflection, which in a longer perspective also may reduce the ability to feel compassion. A dangerous path.
We're all part of this noise. Since there are no silent spots left, we need to develop a good sense of what to filter out, just to heal ourselves and stop the destructive dehumanizing trend. A bit of a paradox.
Greetings from Sweden
Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)
On 27 feb 2007, at 00.26, samba - wrote:
I think part of what's happening is ,the world is so noisy,and getting noisier all the time,that people tend to screen out much or most of the audio (and other bandwidths for that matter) in their perceptual fields,most of the time. A number times I've seen emergency vehicles w/ sirens blaring ,stuck in traffic,being ignored .And not just in cities.
So advertising ,and I consider pop music advertising, gets louder more in your face harder to ignore. another thing that happens ,I think people still need audio stimulation to counterbalance all the stimulus screening of daliy life,so they tend to take it in concentrated doses in forms that are identified as hedonistic..
Marshall McLuhan said that each generation grow's up in an environment formed,and informed by newer technologies than their parents grew uo with.SO the frequencies and dynamics are different,experientially it's a different world.Each generations's music/dance /fashion is a tool for it to learn how to move in this new world ,o learn it's rhythms and dynamics.
