Noise for Airports
Vibrations and how they get to your ears.
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![An interesting post on a New York Times blog about John Roberts’ opinion of Michael Jackson when he worked in the Reagan White House:
I hate to sound like one of Mr. Jackson’s records, constantly repeating the same refrain, but I recommend that we not approve this letter [inviting MJ to the White House]. Sometimes people need to be reminded of the obvious: whatever its status as a cultural phenomenon, the Jackson concert tour is a massive commercial undertaking. The tour will do quite well financially by coming to Washington, and there is no need for the President to applaud such enlightened self-interest. Frankly, I find the obsequious attitude of some members of the White House staff toward Mr. Jackson’s attendants, and the fawning posture they would have the President of the United States adopt, more than a little embarrassing.
Roberts’ position on the repetition of pop music seems to inadvertently channel the European serialist avant-garde’s obsession with non-repetition, summed up by Stockhausen here:
I think that one should try to make music which is a bit more… flexible, so to speak, a bit more irregular. Irregularity is a challenge, you see. How far can we go in making music irregular?
(via NYT)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/SzTNzpRx2p6vmfybD8wJ9Ojoo1_500.jpg)
An interesting post on a New York Times blog about John Roberts’ opinion of Michael Jackson when he worked in the Reagan White House:
I hate to sound like one of Mr. Jackson’s records, constantly repeating the same refrain, but I recommend that we not approve this letter [inviting MJ to the White House]. Sometimes people need to be reminded of the obvious: whatever its status as a cultural phenomenon, the Jackson concert tour is a massive commercial undertaking. The tour will do quite well financially by coming to Washington, and there is no need for the President to applaud such enlightened self-interest. Frankly, I find the obsequious attitude of some members of the White House staff toward Mr. Jackson’s attendants, and the fawning posture they would have the President of the United States adopt, more than a little embarrassing.
Roberts’ position on the repetition of pop music seems to inadvertently channel the European serialist avant-garde’s obsession with non-repetition, summed up by Stockhausen here:
I think that one should try to make music which is a bit more… flexible, so to speak, a bit more irregular. Irregularity is a challenge, you see. How far can we go in making music irregular?
(via NYT)
