1. The main differences between hearing and listening is that when your hearing stuff your not really like paying attention and understanding whats happening. For instance if your just hearing 2 people talk your just probably hearing it go through one ear and out the either. While when your listening your actually listening close to someones conversation and your understanding and analyzing what those 2 people are saying. When your listening i feel like your more engaged in what your doing, but hearing and listening work together.

2. Schafer and Krukowski identify a relationship between space and sound. They identify that music and the sound of it is an instrumental part of alot of things. They believe that music and sound is sometimes produced by emotion and sometimes by noise. Schafer believes that sound is not just a product of the culture and environment around you but its a reflection of everything that goes on around you and how your hearing all the noise around you. They also found out that analyzing soundscape was a much harder task than anything.

1. What do you take the differences between “hearing” and “listening” to be? Do we make choices about what we listen to? If so, how do we make these choices? What criteria do we use? Do structural features, such as race, gender, or social class, inform how we listen? How so? Are there other structural elements that affect our listening experiences?
2. How do Schafer and Krukowski discuss the relationship between sound and space?