Klarinet Archive - Posting 000029.txt from 1969/12

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: loud bands (nearly OT)
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500

REMEMBER---This is a phenomenon that started in the early '70's. Does that =
mean that before that nobody heard Buddy Rich, Louis Bellson, Benny Goodman=
, John Phillip Sousa, Bach?

Before that nary a sermon was ever heard in a church?

Kurt=20

-----Original Message-----
>From: Juan Francisco Vicente Becerro <juanfran2@-----.com>
>Sent: Jul 20, 2007 7:50 AM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Re: loud bands (nearly OT)
>
>Oliver Seely escribi=C3=B3:
>> When an amplified sound event is announced on our campus I=20
>> always show up with the meter and tell the disk jockey that I'm going to=
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>> shut him down if he doesn't lower the volume.
>
>That's great!, but, what if I have the meter (or the ears pain), but I'm=
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>not the "man in charge"!.
>
>In smoking, you can choose whether to smoke or not, but sometimes it's=20
>impossible to avoid suffering passive smoking. Of course you can choose=20
>to listen music or not, but, nowadays, there is kind of a "silence=20
>horror", all needs sound, all type of toys, shops, machines.
>
>I am a musician, I make sound (sometimes called noise, but that is=20
>subjective, :-) ), but I always try to adjust my music level: quantity=20
>of audience, potential background disturbing noise, volume of the room,=20
>keeping an eye (sorry, an ear) in reaching a pleasant auditive=20
>experience. The conductor's "point of hearing" is one of a really high=20
>intensity (both emotional and acoustical way :-) ), but this is needed=20
>because some "weird" thing about the sound decreasing the inverse of the=
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>square of the distance. I don't want to hear music whispered, I like it=20
>loud when I want to pay attention only to the music, but not to the=20
>"pain point".
>
>The problem here comes when a lot of people (age, education, and social=20
>customs?) think that a "nice and pleasant" auditive experience is up to=20
>120 dB.
>
>At least with the DJ you can try to (unnoticed) unplug something.
>
>
>Juanfran
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