Most of the opening event ceremony was in the style of “Western Art Music” (i.e. “classical” ish ) — including the Chinese National Anthem itself. Instead of choosing to celebrate traditional music, the Chinese largely deferred to the West. Read more »
Allow me to lecture you for a minute. Yes, I’m talking to you. You go to some loud concerts, you’re in a band, or you go to clubs. The music is crazy loud and yet you never use any sort of hearing protection. Read more »
There’s something so cool about the vibrate function of cellphones.
When I was a kid, I used to hold my headphones against the side panel of my wooden desk; the miracle of sympathetic vibrations turned the desk into one huge speaker for whatever was spinning on my discman. Read more »
I love listening to the rain. Like many parts of the country right now, New York has recently been blanketed with water falling fromt the sky. Yesterday I walked one block in full rain gear and was already soaking wet, that’s how crazy it is here. But there’s something aurally beautiful about the sounds water makes in stormy times.
I awoke yesterday morning to the sound of rain pounding against my window. In the hallway outside my apartment, Read more »
I know it’s strange, but for some reason I love the music they play when you’re on hold. It’s always totally crappy, but it’s a very different kind of crappy background music from the typical muzak you hear in the elevator or at the dentist’s office.
My favorite hold music is when you get these horrible quality instrumentals that sound like midi files that came as free samples with windows 95 Read more »
Boarding my flight home on Sunday after a brief vacation thanks to the long Easter weekend, I noticed something strange:
Between when I found my seat and when the flight attendant made her first announcement, 3 muzak songs played over the public address system. I didn’t recognize the songs, but I did notice that all three were in the same key.
What made this salient was that the hum of the engines was perfectly matched Read more »