Sound, Music, Affect: Theorising Sonic Experience by Marie Thompson and Ian Biddle Chapter Two: Felt as thought (or, musical abstraction and the semblance of affect) Eldritch Priest -As Plato noted and Muzak exploited, music has a peculiar way of simulating … Continue reading →

Soothe Operator: Muzak and Modern Sound Art-Suset Min (2002) Examples of retaliation to Muzak: There have been many attempts to eliminate Muzak, whether through legislation, high profile campaigns, or attempted buy-outs such as heavy- metalist Ted Nugent’s $10 million bid … Continue reading →

Sounding out the City-Michael Bull The ‘Site’ and ‘Horizon’ of Experience Personal stereo use reorientates and re-spatializes the users’ experience with users often describing the experience in solipsistic and aesthetic terms. Personal stress appear to provide an invisible shell for … Continue reading →

Music and the Mind-Anthony Storr  Chapter Five: Escape From Reality?  –The opening section of this chapter discuss’ Freuds psychoanalysis theories in relation to music, listening and the manic creative (or neurotics). Although I don’t agree with Freud totally, Storr bring … Continue reading →

From the New York Times article; My previous look at how Muzak works, as described in The Recording Angel is a rather outdated description. The NYTimes article summarises how the the company has evolved. The architect rates the song in … Continue reading →

Excerpts from The Recording Angel by Evan Eisenberg : ‘…Bing Muscio, former president of Muzak Corp.,who came to the firm from a manufacturer or air conditioners, said that his product should be heard but not listened to. Designed to flatten … Continue reading →

Gendered Sound by Marie Thompson Thompson brings to the afore, the often overlooked topic regarding sound and gender, specifically human or autonomous sound that is not attached to a body or form. The essay is broken into three sections being … Continue reading →