I’ve learned you have to stay out of the way of old audiophiles also!
And maybe keeping with the same theme,
Psychology Today - The Difference Between Healing and Curing
Caffeine content in filter coffee brews as a function of degree of roast and extraction yield
RIP Zakir Hussain
Got to see him last fall in Portland—what an amazing musician.
The conclusion of the decribed studies reflects my experience.
“The brain does a really good job picking up on how likely it is to be shifting attention,” Sali said. “The brain gets ready to shift and it ends up in a cost in accuracy.”
I’ve found this to be true for me.
Playing subtle music, whether that’d be ambient pieces or baroque polyphonic compositions, will distract me; forcing me to have to reread some passages as if I had skipped completely over them the first time.
Then again, having multiple news an police choppers hovering overhead, a plethora of emergency vehicles racing down the streets or just the everyday noises associated with living in a dense city - the music can make all that just recede into the background.
I find the hours of 4am - 8am to be the golden hours for reading and enjoying multiple cups of coffee…
RIP Richard Perry
An excerpt that is just one goodie from this piece…
By 1973 the Strolling Bones, as NME had started to call them, were showing their age. Jagger and Richard both turned 30 that year – last orders for rock stars in that hope-I-die-beforeI-get-old era. Bill Wyman was 37, for chrissakes – nearly as old as Elvis. Keith – Keef – still sported a chipped front tooth and deathly white pallor, his matted black hair the result of his habit of not sleeping – ever; he bragged that his record was “nine days without a wink”.
Please do not post articles behind a paywall.
Thank-you for posting as it is likely I would have missed it. A fun read and concept. I understand that links to articles behind a pay wall can be frustrating for some, I’d like to think many on the forum have a subscription the the NYT.
Quoting from the article:
…listening bars (Kissa) as “the tip of the spear, of a broader movement of people paying more attention to audio.”