An interesting article on Muzak

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You get why I moved it, right?

I get why you moved it now.
..though If the other board is strictly for works in progress, why is the friday influences thread there?


The thing that interested me and what I typed before the angry bear swallowed it - I feel like Pop music (or songs) are squarely between two extremes..

Muzak/background music something intentionally not meant to be noticed.

"Pure Music" being symphonic/orchestral/classical music where active listening and sometimes knowledge is a part of the process of listening.

Pop music is meant to be as accessible noticeable and easy to listen to as possible.

In writing any song or piece of music their's a balance between the expected and unexpected or boring and interesting. That can mean resolving dissonances, making sure two simultaneous musical ideas aren't equally interesting (and so competing for attention), or repetition vs change/development.. or as all of us know - the balance between self expression and giving the listener what the listener expects. (for instance the guitar is standard in most forms of pop music - by excluding it you're distancing yourself from the listener in a subtle and sometimes not so subtle way.)

I thought the film editing analogy was particularly interesting and worth thinking about in our every day work. "How visible do I want this musical idea to be?"

I was just listening to an interview with Andy and Lana Wachowski and they were talking about The Matrix movies and how something they were surprised that few if any critics brought up was that the film itself was a Matrix of sorts. You plug in and it controls your thoughts and essentially shapes your world for two hours.


Again, I don't have a point per say - I just thought it was interesting.

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