- According to the article they say, i say, by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein writers should use the model, “entering the conversation”. Its important because itll help you to become a better writer. Youll hear other point of view and itll expand your idea for writing. Critical thinking also plays a part.
- I agree that learning to look at art can help even though i dont seem to understand everyone artwork concept. Looking at artwork forces you to dig deeper, it teaches you to educate yourself more and instead of making assumptions to ask more questions.
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introduction
hello, my name is Tyrema. This is my first year attending LAGCC and im majoring in criminal justice. On my free time i like to play basketball or go to the studio. Im actually happy to be back in school, but being online is way harder due to me being a hands on learner. Hopefully next semester will be way better for me .
Blog Post #8
For my second paper, I will be discussing how ” noise pollution” is an increasing danger to many modern cities by using Damon Krukoiski’s ” Ways of Hearing,” and R. Murray-Schafer’s ” The Soundscape.” Sound plays an important role in our lives. It helps us deliver information to others, it allows us to understand the context of spoken words, it evokes emotional responses, but the most vital part about sound, is that us humans, and animals, use our sense of hearing to alert us from when danger is near. Both authors discuss the importance of being aware of our surroundings, and how many of us, myself included tend to block out the noise from the city with our headphones playing music, or us being to into our phones while walking down the street, being in our own ‘ sonic universe’ and not being alert of whats going on around us. Now a days in New York City’s subway stations, its become extremely crucial that we keep our eyes, and our ears open while waiting for the trains. Many distracted people became victims of predators looking for someone who wasn’t aware of their environment.
Blog post 8
The topic I chose to write about do paper two was how the use of headphone change our experiences with public space. Many people have become so accustomed to wearing headphones that it is nearly second nature for them to do so. These people not only wear headphones all of the time, but they also wear them almost everywhere, including in public places. People construct their own “private soundscapes” in public spaces by wearing headphones (Aletta et al., 2016). Researchers should pay attention to this issue since the establishment of private acoustic environments can change people’s perceptions of public space. This study addresses five research questions about using headphones in parks and on public transportation: why people use them, when they first start using them and when they stop, what activities they do while wearing headphones, what they listen to, as well as how wearing headphones impacts their experience.
Blog Post #8
Using Damon Krukowski’s ways of hearing space and a piece written by Ralph Ellison I will be able to identify the impact that our surrounding sounds have on our lives. We choose the sounds we want to listen to on a daily basis and the choices we make influence the culture around us. Although many may not agree living in New York city the sound and music we listen to help us flow through the busy streets. Traveling to other places you notice the difference in how others move throughout their life reflecting the sounds and music in their environment. Damon Krukowski shows how new Yorkers tend to use music to block out the noisy streets and are usually blind to the loud noise appose to a tourist coming in who is not use to the loud sounds of cars, people screaming, and music playing. Many of the individuals rushing past are likely to have headphones in and are in their own bubbles so they don’t have the time to greet you walking by unlike other places. Ralph Ellison tells how he began using music to block out all of the noise he didn’t want to hear but it was also used to help him create a bond between him and his neighbor. The sounds around us have a cultural impact.
Blog Post #7
There are songs that we have only heard once or twice some we haven’t even heard at all. The reason being that they are “The marginal-the rejected-the repressed is whatever the powerful have decided is no use at the moment”. The marginalized would be the songs that the popular society has casted aside and deemed inappropriate for the era. Eventually all music gets retired but the marginalized art get put away before its time. Music shows who the powerful and the marginalized are. The powerful would be the popular demand the ones society feels have more of an influence.
Forced Exposure is an independent music distributor. At Forced Exposure Jimmy Johnson and his employees encounter over fifty thousand titles each week one hundred new titles arrives. They take the time to listen to each new song, he feels that distribution has a responsibility to give attention to each artist and not just scan over the piece of work. Forced Exposure is like a “deceased magazine” giving 75,000 words a week describing each record listened to and full detail printed catalogue offering recommendations of the new songs they have heard that month. Forced exposure in comparison to Spotify involves more of a human interaction.
With Spotify you are not left scrolling through music there’s an algorithm to recommend music based on what your mood is or what your believed interest are no one at the company is actually listening to the music being recommended to you. Most of the songs are overlooked the recommendations will more likely be the songs that are currently more popular so songs that you would like you would never hear, all because of the songs played during one mood you were in while looking for music to listen to or what may have been your interest that you are no longer interested in. The algorithm being used also present music with acoustics similarities so your left listening to music that almost sounds the same but just have different artist. This way of recommending ensures that you are not surprised by music.
Surprise is not very helpful to many corporations. The idea is to find you something that you are comfortable with not to surprise you with something you’ve never heard and you become disinterested. You want to hear something that you may like even just enough to keep it playing to the end. Discovering music with Spotify, Apple Music, Google Music, or similar applications the goal is find you new music that you have not heard, but are more likely to like because it sounds like the other songs that are in your collection. The music is familiar so it’s not surprising. Since today era is so technical it makes it so much easier for ad trackers to tally what catches our attention.
blog post 7
- What Krukowski means by this is music is always evolving and so is the way of hearing music.For example, we dont have to own a record player or go buy CDs anymore, its on our phones,tv and even social medias.
- People are also drawn to whats hot instead of what they enjoy so it leaves certain individuals little choice for expansion on hearing different genres or kinds of music. Basically the difference between the marginalized and the powerful.
- When being surprised takes place you can just be listening to something you havent heard yet and could be surprised by how good it sounds, but when discovering music it could be a different type of genre or something you’d think youll never be caught listening to or wouldnt think to click on a regular day.
- Forced exposures is different from other platforms because they play all types of music and not only music that falls into the category of what you usually listen to on a regular daily basis.
blog post 6
- Ralph Ellison talks about how he lives in a new york apartment with little soundproof. He was constantly distracted with noise and it affected him and his projects he had going on. For example , he spoke about his neighbors playing music and being noisy, and a singer who lived above him but overall the experience made him think deeper on logic of music.
- i think Ellison means you cant avoid noise or music without other noises so instead of suffering from noises make something good out of it.
- based off of Ellison and Krukowski you can say they both think you cant avoid sounds.
blog post 5
1)I think the difference between hearing and listening is that to hear means for sound to go in your ears even if you want to hear it or not. Listening is a choice , you dont necessarily have to pay attention.For example, you can hear but dont have to be listening to whats actually going on.Yes, we make choices of what we listen to and race and social classes do play a part. everybody has different beliefs especially when it comes to race or religion
2)Schafer and krukowski discuss the relationship between sound and space by explaining that sound is always around us.schafer believes that sounds depend on the culture aspect of feelings
Living with music Blog post#6
As New Yorkers, we have fully become accustomed to the loud sounds of the street and the annoying neighbors. We are also used to hearing different songs playing extremely loud at every turn some we don’t mind and some we wish we could tell the person to turn off. Ralph Ellison stated in Living with Music “In those days it was either live with music or die with noise…” Music is our personal way of blocking out unwanted noise that we have no control over. As referred to in soundscape by Murray Schafer is creates our own personal bubble blocking out the sounds we do not want to hear.
Living in New York City Ralph Ellison upstairs neighbor was a singer. The sounds of her song rang throughout his apartment as she sang. As Damon Krukowski believed the music reflected how he felt singing the words he wouldn’t say to her. He fought music with music the louder she sang the louder he played. The music his neighbor and he shared would go on to create a bond between them the music had “magic with mood and memory”. Ellison thought he would never be able to get past his writers block but as much as the music tortured him in the beginning, it reminded him of his love for his music as a child. Music has a way of “reminding us of what we were and of that toward which we aspire” the music Ellison heard in his building stayed with him even after he moved away from his New York City apartment and helped him with his writing.
