How fastidious are you about how things and envoirements sound?
 

I'm a particularly fastidious person when it comes to sound.I have a problem with a lot of public envoirements because of the carelessness in wich sound is contained or spread.The same goes for tons of music that is played live.Are you?

I hate music played in most malls, doctors/dentists waiting rooms, lifts,
funfairs, between bands at festivals, shops, markets. I think it's very important to know what, where and when to play something.

are you just talking about noise in general? like the sounds of cars and people walking and stuff?

Those are more related to actual mutating soundscapes.I'm talking more about man made envoiremental acoustics.

oh, in that case I agree. I thought you were talking about what I said, in which case I would have to call you a dumbass for complaining about the inevitable :)

Careful there.

Or else go and take a soundwalk on the wildside.

I know a hint when I hear one...

Can we stay on topic for once?

A little bit, I am.

Cool.In what way?

I always intend to, but it's just so damn hard...

I like being in train stations, and the collection of sounds is very much a part of that. Liverpool Lime Street is very fine for all of that kind of thing.

Train stations are a favourite hunt when i record stuff.One particular favourite is Stratford station.Something about the way it is build makes it sound almost relaxing.Warehouses are another must(mainly the abandoned kind).What i can't stand is pubs that play loud music on cheap speakers.They are damaging and pointless.Crowd chatter is another sound that goes in and out of fashion round here.

I generally hate the shrill sounds of construction in NYC. Sometimes it's kind of interesting I suppose. As far as pickiness when it comes to listening to music, thing have to be perfect. I don't own an Ipod or anything. I really have to be at home or somewhere private with a turntable or headphones or something. I've kinda gone ridiculously overboard in making listening to music a "sacred" thing for me.

Funnily the sound of buildings being built reminds sometimes of Sonic Youth's music in the 80s.

I don't like a lot of live music. I'm not sure if it's because I'm sensitive to sounds or because I end up being insanely critical.

Off the top of my head, one of my favourite sounds is between Green Park and Victoria where it goes round the bend and you get this unGodly racket for about 20 seconds. It's amazing noise, and it's only there if you're listening...

I'm totally sensitive to sound myself and that's why i rarely enjoy live music.Something about my ears has become an entity in itself that decides when certain frequencies should deserve a life or not.I love sound and the way it travels(sonicl if you are out there,remember our conversation last friday?) in its multiple aspects.

i dont like bare brick basements for gigs because its just so loud and the smallest sound is amplified too much.

i used to know a busker in leeds who played outside the drains so that the sound would be amplifies down the street through the others. he claimed it travelled through the sewers.

i don't find myself over-analyzing too much music sound in public, music is what it is, be it played on shitty speakers or good speakers. i love when music or sound reverbs and echoes in long, empty hallways. it hasn't happened much to me, but when it does, i love it. i like listening to the sounds everywhere, be it birds and such, or just the bus going by, i like analyzing how different it sounds, and listening to it as it becomes less and less audible...