MUSIC Aural wallpaper: The background hiss to our lives*

British conductor Thomas Beecham famously quipped that the “English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes”.


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These days, his observation might be extended to most parts of the world. In cities in the developed world, background music is everywhere. It is not there to be listened to, it is just noise: a sonic accompaniment to the rhythms of urban lif…

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