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NOISEWALL

                                             May 5, 2010

  One function of music:
  to screen out other sounds                     PURPOSES_OF_MUSIC
  that might be (even more)
  distracting.

  I'm thinking about that at the
  moment, because I'd really like
  to listen to the "SF Sound"
  stream...
                                                   http://200.35.148.107:8000/listen.pls

   But as is often the case for the
   kind of music I'd *like* to listen
   to these days, it's not an unbroken
   wall of sound: there's a lot of           That's another characteristic
   space in it, a lot of silences.           of musics one might track:
                                             does it use silence, or treat
   It just won't drown out the               silence as the enemy.
   chatter outside my office window.
                                                     Cage's criteria
                                                     for "modern art".
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