REFLECTIONS NOV 8

This is the first time in history that most people in most societies can listen to any kind of music, performed by the greatest performersof the period and many of the best of the past century, any time anywhere as many times as they like.

Flashback about a century ago. Music was reserved for live-only
performances, for a selected group, in a limited number of venues.
Only the wealthiest could afford to enjoy the best performers.
How has this technological change changed our relationship to music?
Are we actually listening or has music become a kind of sound
wallpaper, a filler, so we can sustain a distance form the immediacy
of our own experience? How often do most of us give our "undivided
attention" to the music that surrounds us? 

from Akashaloka,
Ray Innen Parchelo