I found this article interesting because it includes some discussion of acoustic design.
I found this article interesting because it includes some discussion of acoustic design. Which is complicated in ways that may not be obvious.
I'm also going to throw a completely unsupportable analogy out there. There's been a rise over time in obnoxiously strong and persistent "scents". Think Axe. You cannot buy a home cleaning product anymore that doesn't have some horrible perfume added to it. Perfume that is stronger, more persistent, and more likely to trigger breathing problems than that actual cleaning solutions themselves. Lysol is a case in point.
Overlapping in time we've got the visual things of constant movement and lights and 10 seconds is too long a visual nevermind a sound clip.
I think we've found ourselves in an era of constant oversaturation of the senses. Louder, brighter, faster, smellier - just increases in volume and quantity of input. Quality is not necessarily an issue. In fact, it's often not desired.
I wouldn't mind it quieter. I definitely would love to have less smelly-ness.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-restaurants-got-so-loud/576715/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-restaurants-got-so-loud/576715/
I'm also going to throw a completely unsupportable analogy out there. There's been a rise over time in obnoxiously strong and persistent "scents". Think Axe. You cannot buy a home cleaning product anymore that doesn't have some horrible perfume added to it. Perfume that is stronger, more persistent, and more likely to trigger breathing problems than that actual cleaning solutions themselves. Lysol is a case in point.
Overlapping in time we've got the visual things of constant movement and lights and 10 seconds is too long a visual nevermind a sound clip.
I think we've found ourselves in an era of constant oversaturation of the senses. Louder, brighter, faster, smellier - just increases in volume and quantity of input. Quality is not necessarily an issue. In fact, it's often not desired.
I wouldn't mind it quieter. I definitely would love to have less smelly-ness.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-restaurants-got-so-loud/576715/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-restaurants-got-so-loud/576715/
For scent, people have been convinced that anything that even briefly or mildly smells of an actual human (whether sweat or other things) is something that is so terrible and awful that it needs to be covered up immediately because... I don’t know, never found a reasoning for that I could understand. “It’s gross!”; well, not as gross as pine Lysol.
ReplyDeleteThe mechanism for audio and visual stimulation seems to be a different one — for those it feels like it’s a matter of competition and a race-to-the-loudest.
Ok, but there is a difference between eliminating odors and adding more and more layers of stronger and stronger odors. It’s like instead of asking people to turn volume down or off because you don’t want to hear them you turn up the volume on everything you own to drown them out. Thus failing to achieve quiet and making the noise problem worse. You may not hear them, but you can’t hear anything and you’re probably hurting yourself, too.
ReplyDeleteYes, exactly. Odors cannot be eliminated, they can only be covered up.
ReplyDeleteDeodorant works just fine. It doesn't need perfume, as well. Shampoo works just fine, it doesn't need perfume, and that impossible to get rid of time release perfume on top of it. Soap works just fine, it doesn't need to also coat you with impossible to remove time release smelly perfumes.
ReplyDeleteEven if you want a particular perfume smell, I don't need to choke when I walk into a room 30 minutes later and the miasma lingers. I don't even know it's associated with you, you're gone. That smell isn't making anything positive happen, just constricting my airways. Perfume used to be something ephemeral, teasing. You had to get close, or it had to be in someone's clothes until they washed them, but you could wash the scent out, I should note.
As for cleaning solutions, they're supposed to clean, not add to the problems.