For those who like their politics served up in man-size, hard-to-digest portions, accompanied by an unsolvable riddle contained in a fortune cookie with Eurovision chutzpah replacing
elevator music as background noise -- then Cyprus politics is right for you.
"The most extreme example is
elevator music, right?
Stay away from the slow and classical variety as this can be associated with '
elevator music', creating a lethargic and sluggish attitude.
But he also went far and wide with his musical choices, scoring his works not only with symphonies and concertos but ragtime, tango, barbershop quartet and even
elevator music. In "Big Bertha" (1970), set in an amusement park, he used music from a band machine acquired from a St.
class="MsoNormalKioko is enthusiastically positive about the way more and more Kenyans are buying art ndash and the way Kenyan interior designers are using Kenyan art rather than the abstract equivalents of
elevator music. class="MsoNormalHe is also positive about the many young artists that are at work these days ndash youngsters who have been exposed through travel and training in different countries.
The immaterial presence of sound is also decisive elsewhere in the show, for instance at the Musee d'art contemporain de Lyon, where viewers encounter audio ranging from the cacophony of David Tudor's Rainforest V (Variation 2), 1973/2015, to the abstract Muzak of Ari Benjamin Meyers's
Elevator Music (LYON), 2017.
Try to avoid the neat places where jazz is played like
elevator music in the background of an expansive meal.
When one contemplates negative uses of music, one's first thoughts may turn to relatively benign, albeit annoyingly ubiquitous, "
elevator music." Because listening is not required--in fact, rather discouraged--in these circumstances, it may be considered merely "white noise." An interesting, well researched recent study by Lily Hirsch that focuses on American use of music in crime prevention, punishment, and torture reveals a much darker, more menacing side, and America seems complicit in its practice.
Sheeran's music used to 'sedate' shoppers JOHN DINGWALL j.dingwall@dailyrecord.co.uk ED Sheeran's songs could be the modern equivalent of
elevator music, according to a new chart.
You will now be put on hold and hear some pleasant
elevator music while you decide what to do.
Oino, the album's debut single, has a strong beat that all of the other creative junk - saxophone, synth, autotuned vocals - can stick to and build upon, while Night Train sounds like a weird mesh of club hit and
elevator music.
We've all been there-holding-waiting for what seems like years to speak to that cable representative, our sanity slowly draining from overly-happy-yet-slightly-horrifying
elevator music. Please hold.