The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

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Riddle Sideways: Music
Riddle Sideways: The sound track of Life-All
DR42 Resident: Namaste
Riddle Sideways: Hi Maude
Riddle Sideways: This week's suggested topic is dear
DR42 Resident: How does music effect or express your mood?
Riddle Sideways: More than fav song on the radio
Riddle Sideways: but, a song on the radio can transform or inform the current mood
Riddle Sideways: sometimes the current mood is 'stuck' on the same song-music (for days!)
Riddle Sideways: radio = very loose term for music heard somehow
Riddle Sideways: switch on the radio and mood can change
DR42 Resident: The radio I listen to when driving is either public radio, which often has new and interesting artists, or a classical music station.
DR42 Resident: Classical makes me pensive, I think.
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Riddle Sideways: the style-genre of the music can spark great chat topics
Riddle Sideways: many can really get chatty over some certain genre or song titles
Riddle Sideways: however, there is a larger topic that you touched
DR42 Resident: That is what happens here on Monday ay 7 AM
Riddle Sideways: sorry, not read that yet
Riddle Sideways: what of the Playing and Being parts that music plays
Riddle Sideways: (bad sentence)
Riddle Sideways: general-global-larger 'Music' Plays as Being
DR42 Resident: When I was depressed, I would listen to music that was depressing, making the cycle even more self-reinforcing. Music is used by some to define who they are.
Riddle Sideways: even more than the sound track background
Riddle Sideways: ah, The Blues
Riddle Sideways: yes, Music can both help inform and transform
Riddle Sideways: active-passive
DR42 Resident: When you choose music, do you select active music, or passive?
Riddle Sideways: turn on the radio and flip through channels until it matches current conditions
Riddle Sideways: both-either. Maybe it chooses. Maybe it is mutual
Riddle Sideways: even NPR has music to it. The 'News' and 'stories' have tone, speed, emphasis(sp?), etc.
DR42 Resident: when I listen to the radio, it is more the music chooses me.
DR42 Resident: yes, NPR does. But I listen to a station that plays some of the NPR feed, but other source material at other times.
Riddle Sideways: it chooses you, yet you have veto power.
DR42 Resident: yes
Riddle Sideways: There are 100's of radio stations available
Riddle Sideways: some radios have 5-6 quick pick select station buttons
Riddle Sideways: when turned on it is where you were
Riddle Sideways: last
Riddle Sideways: and you can choice to check for other closer fits
DR42 Resident: I only get a few where I live. Maybe two dozen, and I do not listen to "country." or religious stations.
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DR42 Resident: So, that limits me to a handful.
Riddle Sideways: personal choice
Riddle Sideways: of ALL the possiblities, you have narrowed to pleasing or needed few
Riddle Sideways: then Play those
Riddle Sideways: maybe that is 'free will'
DR42 Resident: What if you could listen to multiple stations atthe same time, would you? or would you "surf" rapidly if you could?
Riddle Sideways: yes, multiple stations (when able, like Pandora can) and surf if multiple not available
Riddle Sideways: and you?
DR42 Resident: I would listen to one, I will change only if something too annoying is played. It has to exceed a threshold to get me to bother to switch.
Riddle Sideways: how like life
DR42 Resident: Music is not background for me, I try to truly listen to each note.
Riddle Sideways: yes, even in the muzak locations (elevators, grocery)
DR42 Resident: Like having a conversation with only one person at a time, not being part of multiple conversations.
DR42 Resident: I have been able to get a number of restaurants I would frequent to get rid of Muzak and play actual music.
Riddle Sideways: can be the other way too. listening intently to each note of the Muzak. singing along to what is present
Riddle Sideways: the principle of being dealt a hand of music and enjoying-working with it anyway.
Riddle Sideways: finding a fav Beatles song in the cerial aisle
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DR42 Resident: Do we live in a world of too many choices? If I do not like the Muzak, I can listen to my cell phone. Why bother to load up the phone unless I am going to listen to it?
Riddle Sideways: as fabulous as this chat is going... Can we return to something from last week?
DR42 Resident: Sure.
Riddle Sideways: The hearing of Brownian noise
DR42 Resident: Ah.
Riddle Sideways: For more than a year there has been a constant hiss in ears
DR42 Resident: That is not the same. As I age, it happens to me as well.
Riddle Sideways: very noticeable
Riddle Sideways: ah, just old age
DR42 Resident: I was told that the hearing of Brownian noise can only be done by a very small percentage of people, and you must be in a place that is exceedingly quiet.
DR42 Resident: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus
DR42 Resident: It comes and goes, from being annoying to not noticeable.
Riddle Sideways: thanks
DR42 Resident: I used to work in an anechoic chamber testing hearing protection. That was when I found out I could actually hear the impingement on my ear drums from Brownian motion.
DR42 Resident: But, it is something that only the young can do. It goes away with being older.
Riddle Sideways: also, in the sensory deprivation chambers does your internal music continue?
DR42 Resident: Yes, it does.
Riddle Sideways: mine too
Riddle Sideways: kind of universal. this music thing :)
Riddle Sideways: very fun to play
DR42 Resident: I need to run...
Riddle Sideways: well, thanks so much