When I was in a junior high-school, I touched my friend's Walkman for the first time. I clearly remember the feel of my shock at that time now. It was almost a magic that I could enjoy dynamic stereo sound just by wearing small headphones. Technology has improved more greatly since then and we can now hold hundreds or thousands of music in a tiny device such as iPod which is even smaller than the traditional audio cassette tape. Literally, we can enjoy whatever music we like whenever and wherever we like. It's really great and convenient, but I can't help considering about our attitude to music. As for me, I am always doing something when I listen to music. All the music is flowing on the background and I rarely listen to a music in order only to listen to it. Plus, if the music I am listening to does not fit to my feel at that time, I skip it without hesitating. It would have been a bad attitude in the age of analog record players. I think the weight or preciousness of music has become lighter as the music player has done.
Recorded music has existed for only a hundred years or so. Before that time making music was the domain of the amateur as well as the professional.
Posted by: Listener | January 27, 2007 at 01:11 PM