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They both sit there on the shelf, like dense packages of high-quality radio ready to be unfurled, not always for listening but for creating the particular audio background I’m after, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, wherever.
I could of course, just use a regular ipod plugged into a regular speaker but there’s something about all that choice, all those options, those MENUs. I just want to switch it on and for the right sort of sound to come out.
It’s different. There’s something to doing less, having less, building something for just a little bit of attention.
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Russell Davies: Secondary attention and little boxes of sound
When I read this, my first though is of a summer house where you only keep one or two records. And read the same magazines every time you come back. It’s as the house only have one soundtrack, one kind of reading, one mediasphere.
This makes coming back to that summer house such a pleasure in that you’ve heard every song, read every word and looked at every image in that house. Less media is sometimes comforting.
