Saturday, July 17, 2004
Narration Enhances Music Experience
"This disc also can be slid into your computer, where you can do something amazing and unexpected: As the sublime music is heard, you're able to follow along with the original manuscript, written in Mozart's hand (completed by a pupil after the composer's death)."
A brief history of the Sony Walkman (only 25 years old this month!)
"Michael Schiffer, author of "The Portable Radio in American Life", is an archeologist at the University of Arizona, and when he looks at something, he starts thinking about what happened before. He doesn't blame the Walkman for a decline of Western civilization. Not entirely. It was just another step, like the transistor radio, something he loved as a kid, in private, because it let him listen to Dodgers games when he was supposed to be sleeping. "The Walkman was critical in altering the rules of being with other people," Schiffer says. "People thought it was rude to listen to music in public. Now our standards have eroded to the route we've gone down with cell phones, which is to sanction rudeness. We are losing sociability."
(and now, the "NY IPOD" -- An Observation During A Commute Hour)
¶ 7/17/2004 07:09:00 AM
"This disc also can be slid into your computer, where you can do something amazing and unexpected: As the sublime music is heard, you're able to follow along with the original manuscript, written in Mozart's hand (completed by a pupil after the composer's death)."
A brief history of the Sony Walkman (only 25 years old this month!)
"Michael Schiffer, author of "The Portable Radio in American Life", is an archeologist at the University of Arizona, and when he looks at something, he starts thinking about what happened before. He doesn't blame the Walkman for a decline of Western civilization. Not entirely. It was just another step, like the transistor radio, something he loved as a kid, in private, because it let him listen to Dodgers games when he was supposed to be sleeping. "The Walkman was critical in altering the rules of being with other people," Schiffer says. "People thought it was rude to listen to music in public. Now our standards have eroded to the route we've gone down with cell phones, which is to sanction rudeness. We are losing sociability."
(and now, the "NY IPOD" -- An Observation During A Commute Hour)
¶ 7/17/2004 07:09:00 AM
