!5 Minutes of Silence (So I thought)

For my public space, I picked the library. One might think this defeats the whole purpose, but thats why I wanted to do it because the library is ironically louder than you think.

I sat directly behind the computers and the printers on the first floor. From the moment I sat down until the moment I got up you could hear the constant sound of the vacuum. The sounds from the vacuum varied through out the time, it became background noise. Along with the vacuum I noticed people always coughing and sneezing which almost became a rhythm, after almost every 30 seconds someone always had to relieve themselves with a cough or sneeze. Other interesting noises i noticed were; whispering, footsteps, crinkling of paper, and a chair using being moved. The door was constantly opening and closing as the people came and went Although it seems like the library was extra noisy that day, it still had an overall calming feeling to it. The time towards the end came a lot quicker than the beginning, because i started to forget what i was actually doing, and instead i just listened to the sounds. The 15 minutes ended up flying by, which i was not expecting.

Good Copy Bad Copy Response

My stance on piracy is this if it is not hurting anyone than what is the big deal? But from the moral stand point it is stealing music, which hurts the artists who work so hard to make the music for us to enjoy. Although, one could argue that well we are enjoying it, just freely. But artists need to make a living too and some are too greedy to just make it without profit. I personally think remixing music is a gift, I have always admired the people who were able to collaborate various different genres and make a great song out of it, because it is a very difficult process, you need an ear for it. I love Girl Talk and his music he mad so many good points through the entire documentary of Good Copy Bad Copy, like towards the end he was remixing the remix which was so ironic. Also he brought up the point that he is just reinterpurating the brazilian version of the remix Gnarles Barkley, it really is the process of passing down ideas. People argue that music sharing websites have brought down the value of music which i disagree, instead it lets everyone get a chance to have great music, that might be unavailable to them otherwise. Also i thought the book argument was very interesting, the fact that we take book references all the time in our papers and as long as you cite it, its perfectly legal so why cant we do the same for music? Mix Tape culture is the present reality.