Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 2007/07

From: Juan Francisco Vicente Becerro <juanfran2@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: loud bands (nearly OT)
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:50:26 -0400

Oliver Seely escribió:
> When an amplified sound event is announced on our campus I
> always show up with the meter and tell the disk jockey that I'm going to
> 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
not the "man in charge"!.

In smoking, you can choose whether to smoke or not, but sometimes it's
impossible to avoid suffering passive smoking. Of course you can choose
to listen music or not, but, nowadays, there is kind of a "silence
horror", all needs sound, all type of toys, shops, machines.

I am a musician, I make sound (sometimes called noise, but that is
subjective, :-) ), but I always try to adjust my music level: quantity
of audience, potential background disturbing noise, volume of the room,
keeping an eye (sorry, an ear) in reaching a pleasant auditive
experience. The conductor's "point of hearing" is one of a really high
intensity (both emotional and acoustical way :-) ), but this is needed
because some "weird" thing about the sound decreasing the inverse of the
square of the distance. I don't want to hear music whispered, I like it
loud when I want to pay attention only to the music, but not to the
"pain point".

The problem here comes when a lot of people (age, education, and social
customs?) think that a "nice and pleasant" auditive experience is up to
120 dB.

At least with the DJ you can try to (unnoticed) unplug something.

Juanfran

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