Environment and taste.

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How have the physical environments you've spent time in affected your musical tastes?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Example: Over the past few years I've spent much time listening to music at work, very quietly as I don't like headphones. Music with crowded arrangements, lots of treble, etc. doesn't register in this environment. But music with strong clear vocals and cleanly articulated instrument parts (esp. in the mid-range) do. I think I've developed more of a predilection for doo-wop, prewar vocal music (listening to the Ink Spots right now), and early country as a result.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

since i've been listening to my record collection in alphabetical order at home, if something is on cd or mp3, it's only going to be heard at work now. and work isn't optimal - i can't turn things up too loud, plus everything just runs through a little boom box. so i am seriously limiting my appreciation of digital music due to this weird, ascetic goal i have set.

― john fail (cenotaph), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

since i've been listening to my record collection in alphabetical order at home

What's up w/ this?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

But music with strong clear vocals and cleanly articulated instrument parts (esp. in the mid-range) do
(have no idea if that's how you make italics?)
i think that's sort of how radio programming works, esp. country radio
they go way too far of course, but that's gotta be part of the formula???

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

my alphabetical project

― john fail (cenotaph), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been listening to my collection in chronological order.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 10 March 2003 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

HM: It's a possibility about country radio. Tamla/Motown singles, for example, were mastered in such a way as to play best on AM car radios.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been listening to my collection in pathological order.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

At work I tend to listen to a lot of electronic music with high pitched frequencies and/or pounding beats so that I can stay awake.

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Great question. Growing up in Staten Island has made me more sympathetic to hip hop and metal, which was all that was around in the clubs when I was growing up. For better or worse.

I write better music (and better EVERYTHING) in rural environments, which is why I can't fucking wait to get out of NYC.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 10 March 2003 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

In london the only mode of creative music that is made is free improv. There are indie bands but remember that the music industry centre in the UK is in london so nothing can grow. so its no use even listening to any indie band from london.

Improv is the only that is left alone, which is why its the best thing.

There are gigs here with a frequency (of sorts) and a couple of grebt rec shops for this music.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

i suppose you could say my hometown is strongly supportive of indie guitar music, hence why it is such a staple of my listening

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 10:47 (twenty-three years ago)

i listen to a lot more instrumental music when i'm travelling to work/college, then when i'm at home. i like to picture movie scenes/videos in my head when i listen outdoors, and instrumental stuff lends itself better to that. it's more filmic, somehow. no words getting in the way of what i'd like to use it as.

(note: i'm not a film-maker of any description, and have no dealings with any sort of film-making. it's just something i do in my head)

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 10:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Kilian
Watch out for the 46a !

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't mean geographical location, but actual physical environment.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry I've misread yr good intentions.

I only listen to music in my room. other places (whilst walking, using public transport is a major dud as 'life' distracts me).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

oh...physical environment - gotcha. well, when reviewing records I prefer the laptop so I can relax and write anywhere, but sometimes gotta listen where the PC is (TV room) and that sucks -

but for recreational listening, I have a big La-Z-Boy chair. Never listen to new stuff anywhere else.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

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