{"id":7,"date":"2004-11-11T09:51:13","date_gmt":"2004-11-11T16:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2006-09-14T23:59:27","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T22:59:27","slug":"enjoy-the-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/11\/enjoy-the-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy The Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No smart comments from me this time &#8211; just pushing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/06\/arts\/music\/06ipod.html?oref=login&#038;oref=login\">a good article about one persons perception of the impact of the iPod et al.<\/a> (needs a login &#8211; get one from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/www.bugmenot.com\">Bug Me Not<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>A similar article would probably have been written about 20 years ago regarding the Walkman, but there are still a couple of strong points that resonate through, as they would have done 25 years ago, or 50 years ago, come to that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;Brant admits to the pressures of such superrichness. He feels obliged to listen for all he&#8217;s worth. He doesn&#8217;t deny that he may not be listening as well as he once did. <\/em><em>If you can listen to everything, you may end up hearing nothing. I sometimes wish half of Brant&#8217;s iPod were filled with blank spaces. Music cannot begin or end without silence in front and behind. Unending music is not music.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I recall Ralf Hutter from Kraftwerk making similar comments in an interview once; he made a point of ensuring that he listened to no music for a period of each day &#8211; something I do too, I have to say, although maybe not so consciously: It surprises me sometimes when I notice I&#8217;ve been working for a few hours and have completely forgotten to put any music on&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No smart comments from me this time &#8211; just pushing a good article about one persons perception of the impact of the iPod et al. (needs a login &#8211; get one from Bug Me Not) A similar article would probably have been written about 20 years ago regarding the Walkman, but there are still a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}