http://www.newsome.org/2007/06/lost-rituals-of-music/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2007/06/lost-rituals-of-music/comment-page-1/#comment-3891 Ethan Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:13:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3392#comment-3891 We're apparently products of similar times. To this day, if I put on a CD (I got rid of all of my vinyl years ago) I treat it as a <I>performance</I>, not idle background music. However, I tend to listen to MP3s far more often, and indeed, they are easy to push off into the sonic background.I don't like to generalize about mass numbers of people, but I wonder how many of today's youth have the stamina to sit through a CD as a performance, as opposed to thinking, "music is on, time to multi-task."In fairness, it has been my experience that only a relative few CDs stand up to end-to-end silent appreciation. I don't need to listen to hours of mediocre material to know that a band had one good song. We’re apparently products of similar times. To this day, if I put on a CD (I got rid of all of my vinyl years ago) I treat it as a performance, not idle background music. However, I tend to listen to MP3s far more often, and indeed, they are easy to push off into the sonic background.I don’t like to generalize about mass numbers of people, but I wonder how many of today’s youth have the stamina to sit through a CD as a performance, as opposed to thinking, “music is on, time to multi-task.”In fairness, it has been my experience that only a relative few CDs stand up to end-to-end silent appreciation. I don’t need to listen to hours of mediocre material to know that a band had one good song.

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