Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!shadooby!accuvax.nwu.edu!tank!tcb1 From: tcb1@tank.uchicago.edu (tom charles braden) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Any suggestions for building a limiter for my stereo? Message-ID: <3684@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 7 Jun 89 00:37:45 GMT References: <376@greek.UUCP> <679@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP> <788@happym.wa.com> <4494@midas.STS.TEK.COM> Reply-To: tcb1@tank.uchicago.edu (tom charles braden) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 26 In article <4494@midas.STS.TEK.COM> jeffw@midas.STS.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow) writes: >Music is not a decoration, like wallpaper. >Background music is a tool of the Devil. Music in the car is a travesty. >Music is to be Listened to! > only half :-) I'll respond to the half that wasn't smiling... I fail to understand this idea that music (or any art form) is so delicate that it must be protected from the rest of life. Should we remove anything faintly artistic from our walls and lock it up in a museum, to be viewed only when the moon is full? A composer has the right to compose a piece to be heard only at night, or only in a completely empty room, but I feel sympathetic towards artisans who feel the need to make even simple things like ashtrays and rugs things of beauty, or musicians of all sorts for whom music forms a part of a social occasion. There's not enough beauty in the world without specifying that all beauty must be totally useless. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Braden ! c/o WHPK ! "The few thoughts left to me University ! 5706 S University ! I shepherd so lovingly" of Chicago ! Chicago, IL 60637 ! - David Thomas