Ok, per usual the actual story is slightly less ludicrous. I’m reading this as they are going to make “songs” by taking real sounds but mixing and arranging them into rhythms, the same way they do in some movies as part of an in-world lead up to a song and dance number. So it will blend in but you may notice if you look for it and it will probably impact your subconscious and mood. Which seems to be the main goal.
Yeah, it’s musique concrète with the samples being airport sounds.
Have some airport ASMR for your airport.
Yo dawg.
Yeesh
That’s going to suck for anyone that gets sensory overload/feels overwhelmed by loud busy places like airports.
I actually disagree having listened to it as someone who gets sensory overload and panic attacks. (Disclaimer: I’ve just listened with headphones; the real-world implementation might change this.)
I thought the music was pleasant. I can see it helping to organically drown out the loud, chaotic, stressful noises naturally present in the airport.
I’m interested to hear what other people who get sensory overload think, though, since I’ll bet it manifests in very different ways.
https://on.soundcloud.com/7zkln9SRp6hPlWXgs3 like, i don’t hate it. baffling justification to make it, though.
That feeling is civilizational collapse right there
The sign of a dying empire is when you no longer bother to etch designs on the buildings. It’s when you no longer give out swag. It’s when you cut everything that doesn’t make money, but does just make things nice
Doing things just to make things nice is good. It shouldn’t need a reason beyond that
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.
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
I’ve long complained about what happens when MBAs control companies without regard for industry experience. This is the inverse and what happens when people whose entire professional life is one industry wind up making decisions for it
So… Kinda like piping in ambient soothing audio over the livestock queueing in the slaughterhouse?
Uh… Hol’up. 😶
I can only guess this prescient classic isn’t publicly viewable anymore.
“Don’t call me Shirley!”
“Nothing compares to the excitement of stepping foot in the airport for the start of a summer holiday, and this new soundtrack perfectly captures those feelings,”
This is what happens when you don’t have enough bullying in your schools
With public fundages? Erm. I… erm
Seems like the rest of the comments, sans a few, didn’t read the article.
Having flown a fair bit, Heathrow always felt rather quiet. I flew out and back to Heathrow 3 times within the span of a year, recently, and didnt notice any background music - something I became familiar with in other airports. If this is how they’re planning to introduce some music I’m all for it.
