{"id":811,"date":"2018-10-18T07:25:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T07:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2018-10-18T07:26:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T07:26:04","slug":"can-sound-be-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/blog-12\/can-sound-be-private\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Sound be Private?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even in the 19th century, the human race had become so sensitized to the soundscape that members of London\u2019s upper middle class felt it necessary to eradicate unnecessary street music from the busy London streets. So transfixed the world was with this phenomenon that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> even posted articles and complaints concerning these \u201corgan nuisances\u201d. Men such as Leech, Charles Dickens, Marcus Stone, William Powell Frith and Thomas Carlyle had taken issue with the unwanted cacophony of sound coming in from their <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">open<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> windows. Sound, especially if it was as loud as many Londoners of that time depicted, travels very far, so what makes Leech and other men like him powerful enough to dictate the sound that can and cannot be played within the specific sound radius they deem pleasant enough? How can we decide what sounds are public and what sounds are private if some of the sounds being discussed come from a more open area where everyone can be heard fairly easily? It is one thing to deem private sounds sounds made in the comfort of one\u2019s own home, but what gives one the authority to deem sounds coming in from the outside (from a propped open window, no less!) more important than sounds coming from inside the house?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There can be private sounds, however. First Walkmans and now much smaller and more technologically advanced MP3-players and smartphones help keep sound private when headphones are plugged in. if your windows are closed, you might be able to hear a lot less of the streets hustle and bustle instead of having to seclude yourself in your very expensive, custom made noise-eradicating room\/attic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sounds can be both public <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> private, but one must be very careful when labelling them or risk overstepping sound boundaries and losing more sound-based relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even in the 19th century, the human race had become so sensitized to the soundscape that members of London\u2019s upper middle class felt it necessary to eradicate unnecessary street music from the busy London streets. So transfixed the world was with this phenomenon that Times even posted articles and complaints concerning these \u201corgan nuisances\u201d. Men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog-12","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}