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The song you are about to
hear is:
-Category 1:
-Ear cleaning, can also be used instead of cotton buds. Sometimes
referred to as "Metal", "Hard rock", "Electronica" etc., and
although closer to noise than to rhythm and impossible to reproduce
by mouth, younger fellows like them and one can't help sometimes
overhearing them in the metro, in the form of a flat metallic noise
escaping from the iPod of the teenager beside you in (very) low-rise
jeans and a somewhat threatening look.
-Category 2:
-Office-environment adapted. Medium-level decibel music that will not
threaten your ears, or your job for that matter. Sometimes described
as Boring, it is the music I intend to play most of the time, boring
being a very relative notion indeed: what can be more boring than a
screen with an .xls table anyhow?
-Category 3:
-Bedroom adapted. Multiple usages possible, and I shouldn't be giving
you a lecture on this one… As a general rule, if you don't confuse
office and bedroom (and I fear some of you will…), everything should
go smoothly. If not, get in touch with me personally, with your
picture attached.
-Category 4:
-Extremely old music, aka as "classical". Usually preferred by older
people with serious conditions, it still deserves some respect:
some of the best classical music was written by deaf composers and
people used to listen to it while actually played on a stage with
voluminous instruments, without Podcasts. Although this presupposes
a PC beside your bed, this music will help mitigate your tinnitus,
which you propably have if you belong to the relevant age group.
Those categories are not exhaustive:
There are also
-Songs to hear in your convertible car on a summer evening
-Songs to play to annoy a nasty neighbour
-Songs to irritate your ageing parents
-National anthems
-Christmas carols
-Military marches
-Noises (Nina Hagen in her early days, Rita Mitsouko, to name just a
few)
-Cringeworthy music (Andreas Vollenweider, or worse, Richard
Clayderman, Helmut Lotti, Paul Mauriat)
and more. I am NOT going to play any of those, as I swear I am not
going to play the following:
-Elevator music
-Healing, zen, buddha or other esoteric and mystic, yoga stuff: Birds
chirping, water flowing and wind blowing through the trees. Ask your
doctor for a prescription if you feel you may need any of the above,
I am just the piano
player
-The soundtrack of Trainspotting (although I might play David Lynch's
soundtracks, sort of a personal vice).
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