I don't think I'd be able to listen to music of any sort, music is too important to me for that.
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I dunno, it might just be because I'm a fan of 'noise' (as a genre), that the workplace sounds never really bothered me. Except for when the machine beeped to let me know it was out of detergent. I ****ing HATE THAT SOUND. |
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And replacing one type of noise with what might be another for someone isn't an improvement. It's like people who spray around air 'freshener' (doesn't freshen anything) to cover up other smells, all of it is still in the air it doesn't get rid of anything. All it does is add to the smell (or noise in the case of sound).
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Background noises actually help mask disturbing sounds. In a very quiet environment, we get very alert. In an otherwise quiet environment, sounds stand out. If you have some kind of background sound going on, other sounds seem less loud.
By background sound, I mean a sound that you are not interested in. It's just present. It could be the hum of a refrigerator, rain, the wind in the trees outside your window, the sound from a fan in the room or even white noise. When the sound is labeled as insignificant, it is ignored by your brain by the same process that makes it so you don't notice every place on your body where your clothes touch you. To some degree, we focus on sensory input which is regarded as important and ignore that which is not. So, sleeping with a noisy fan on can be a better way to get some quiet than sleeping in a quiet room. Any sudden noise will seem very loud in the quiet room, but next to the sound of the fan (which you will learn to ignore in no time), it will be much more quiet. |
Fair enough, it wasn't clear whether it was a response to me or a general statement.
On that note, I'm guilty of using air freshener for the same reason; to give my senses a focal point other than that which I find unpleasant. Ultimately what it comes down to is I am usually alone in my working environment, and I listen to whatever I want regardless of customer preference, because I'm the person who has to spend eight hours of their day there. A customer is not typically present for longer than 5 minutes at a time, and as such, their preferences are moot. If that's something others consider rude, so be it, but I will not decrease my enjoyment of my job for the sake of an opinionated individual who is experiencing a minor inconvenience for merely a minute out of their day. That said, amusingly enough, I've had the most compliments with Rachmaninoff on the radio, and the most complaints about Sufjan Stevens. :laughing: |
I'm completely missing the point of this thread, but doesn't the first post seem incredibly similar to what that idiot who claims to work at NASA goes on about in his blog? You know, about music being generally ****e because he's astoundingly clever and bla bla bla?
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^ I can't help but read your posts in Bernards voice, it's...odd.
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