Music and Philosophy. Music and the Masses

Philosophy and music. Music and musical noise. Man and the Masses. J. Ortega y Gasset - The Revolt Of The Masses.
"Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travellers, cafes full of customers, parks full of promenaders." "Looking in any direction our eyes meet with the multitudes.". Wherever you are, you hear the ugly music. It sounds and in supermarkets and cafes, televisions and radios. She, along with the noise surrounds the people into their ears, affecting the brain. Music for the crowds, as swarm of flies, spoiling the environment and creates discomfort. Even in the stores, designed by designers and architects, forgot one very important detail - sound. Even the fountains and sculptures have not forgotten, but the creation of a sound environment is left at the mercy of the fool. The fool filling the space with musical noise. This kind of noise - for visitors. Only it is not at all clear why these fool filling space with bad music. Thought it would attract visitors? Maybe is attracted to? "It is evident to the verge of platitude that the normal formation of a multitude implies the coincidence of desires, ideas, ways of life, in the individuals who constitute it.". The human crowd has his life style, a style of thought. The crowd thoughts - thoughts from the newspaper, which they read, from the TV, which they are watch. A human crowd hear what they say, seeing what they watch. In this world of the human crowd live their entire lives. Similarly, and with a sound environment. Sound environment is at the mercy of the the crowd. "In those groups which are characterised by not being multitude and mass, the effective coincidence of its members is based on some desire, idea, or ideal, which of itself excludes the great number.". The man not from crowd has its own way of life, a style of thought. The man not from crowd lives in a different world than the one that is living the crowd. Although these worlds overlap. After all, all living on one planet. Now the rule of the masses. "The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe. I doubt whether there have been other periods of history in which the multitude has come to govern more directly than in our own. That is why I speak of hyperdemocracy.". A masses man thinks that he knows everything. The mass man is pleased with himself. He will not listen, because he believes that already knows everything better than the others. All the new knowledge he draws from the TV, fully believing what said the man from television. Tastes and knowledge of the mass man is usually shaped by TV. "The same thing is happening in other orders, particularly in the intellectual. I may be mistaken, but the present-day writer, when he takes his pen in hand to treat a subject which he has studied deeply, has to bear in mind that the average reader, who has never concerned himself with this subject, if he reads does so with the view, not of learning something from the writer, but rather, of pronouncing judgment on him when he is not in agreement with the commonplaces that the said reader carries in his head. ... The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the United States: “to be different is to be indecent.". They are not allocated. They are all - think like everyone, they watching that watching all, they read that read all, they listen that listen all. All they have created for themselves, including sound. "And it is clear, of course, that this “everybody” is not “everybody.” “Everybody” was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialised minorities. Nowadays, “everybody” is the mass alone.". (quotes are taken from "The Revolt of the Masses" J. Ortega y Gasset, 1930.) Imagine sound area from sound designers and musicians... as here. © 2015 audiendi.com