• celeste@kbin.earth
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    19 hours ago

    I’m not really confused by them commissioning music. I’ve seen like, murals and so on in airports. I also like the idea of using recordings of background noise to make a track. It’s the idea of playing ambient airport noises in an airport that confuses me. But that’s art, I suppose. Something to think about. I don’t think me being confused by the thought process here - knowing very little about the theory being ambient music - is a sign of the death of an empire. There’s plenty of those around.

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      19 hours ago

      Do you not think the soundscape of a place matters? If you don’t understand why it makes a place better, I take back what I said about civilizational collapse

      It’s subtle to some people, but it affects your emotions, and how you perceive an environment. We’re wired to go on alert when the forest goes silent, and to pay attention to loud noises… So when a plane, one of the loudest things in modern life, takes off and leaves the airport quiet, that’s deeply disturbing on an animal level. When you walk through long hallways in the depth of night, it’s unsettling no matter how brightly lit it is… Less so if a hundred other people are dragging their luggage and coughing

      It’s why they play birdsong and music at Disney… The rattle of a rollercoaster in the distance is terrifying without it

      The sounds of life make a place feel safe, even if the paint is peeling, a light flickers, and there’s no one around, the paths at Disney always feel safe