Maybe just not audio fan

[shootingstar]

Earlier today I was listening to the first "Will the Circle be Unbroken Album" and enjoyed remembering my grandma (to my 19-year-old surprise) singing along with some of the songs (on a Dirt Band album!?!). After my mom had a stroke, her speech was limited but she could still sing, which led to some precious moments during a nightmare period of life.

I admit I'm puzzled by the original question -- what on earth does watching a movie on a plane have to do with, say, Jessye Norman singing Mahler's Second Symphony? And ditto for talk radio? Ick, ick, ick.

Lumping anything "audio" into a single category -- as this discussion seems to be doing -- is so weird I have trouble responding to it.

I hate the sounds of other people in the house with me, but I have yet to find a way to stop that.

Maybe the topic has evolved into discovering our preferences for type of background sounds over a sustained time period and our level of concentration on whatever task at hand vs. listening for pure pleasure.

What started me on this topic..is there is a audio clip of an interview for a person I know who gave his spin on effect of Olympics on Vancouver's transportation plans then and now and public perception. I wanted to listen to it but it meant hearing other previous speakers. Audio clip doesn't provide any screen ability to fast forward to desired clip.

I have no patience to slog through half hr. or more of other people's radio dialogue on topics that don't interest me.

What would be more drastic to me..is life without colour, without sight.