Sunday, September 14th, 2008
9:54 am - I wake up to silence and try to fall back asleep
10:20 am - I give up and turn on the TV. 'Live Free or Die Hard' is on. I hear lots of sound effects and Marco Beltrami's pretty standard action score. This is all heard through monitors attached to my computer.
11:45 am - A friend and I drive to a nike outlet store. We listen to my ipod through the tape deck in the car stereo.
- We listen to a muffled Miles Davis (My Funny Valentine Concert) underneath some conversation
- We switch to the Secret Machines, 'Now Here is Nowhere'
12:30 pm - In the store rap and hip-hop is playing over the store's PA system. I don't recognize any artists.
1:25 pm - We drive back to campus. We listen to my ipod again. I'm driving this leg and my friend turns up the speakers louder than I had before.
- Smashing Pumpkins - first few songs of 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'
- Radiohead - 'Hail to the Thief'
2:00 pm - I meet with other Comp Sci TAs. I hear no music.
4:00 pm - I work on a CS project for a few hours in the CIT with only sounds of typing and chair swivels.
4:30 pm - A friend's ringtone emits some techno music
8:00 pm - I walk to Wickenden St. I hear a car drive by with a loud bassline thumping, but I cannot hear the higher frequencies.
12:00 am - Back in my room I turn on Johnny Greenwood's score for 'There Will Be Blood' and listen to it while I work. I listen through monitors in my room.
1:55 am - I fall asleep to sounds of the movie 'Waiting'. It's soundtrack consists of some rock songs, and I don't really notice the score.
2 comments:
I find it interesting that most of the music that we choose is either an artist's album or symphony/suite to almost its entirety. There are few people who actively choose to listen to a shuffle or mix to listen to or put in the background. Instead, the mixes seem mostly reserved for stores and non-personal musical settings to appeal to a greater audience. This shows the human subjectivity of "being in the mood" for a certain kind of music.
Nice work Andy. I particularly liked how you told us where you were and what you were doing during the times when there was no music playing. There are times and places where it is never ok to have music playing. Some times the reasons for this are clear, other times not. Perhaps something to think about for your project later on this semester.
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