"the best thing that ever happened to background music was foreground music," reported Billboard in a special sixtieth anniversary advertising supplement devoted to Muzak. "if you go into a store and you think you're hearing Muzak, it probably isn't Muzak," said Bruce Funkhouser, Muzak programming, and licencing VP. "There are still a couple of companies put there doing that old-style 1001-strings, ruin-your-favorite-song kind of thing, but we dropped all that in '87."Since that momentous year, Muzak has switched 11 of its 12 music channels to so-called foreground music (the original hit record by the original artist). The 12th is called the Environmental Music channel. this features instrumental re-recording of those hits."A far cry from the 'oceans of beautiful music' of the past," Billboard continued,"the new channels are hip, current and extensively researched."
Billboard, 29 October 1994

Peter Szendy poses two interrelated questions in <listening>: can we hear a once of hearings? Can I transmit my listening out without losing its uniqueness? And in my practice, why is this such a voice is affecting. and that does not work? When I carry the recording device, open the moment of the recording button, it seems that an objective recording activity is in progress, why do you need this double listening, when I put the recording device on the outside, and I went back to the room time to time to monitor the recording Whether the indicator light is flashing, is it working properly,
is it a question that I have heard, as an active individual, is true? In the listening period of original kind of irreversible, every moment is precious.
the process, that I am in real time through the monitor listen to the recording, the recorder sensitize my hearing, the gradation and space becomes so distinctive, the whole world was concentrated up and violently pushed to and in front of my ears, so that The experience out of this common experience makes me quite excited but there is a trace of fear on my mind, the wind dash against the microphone heads, and inexhaustible white noise, Forcing the subject to feel panic and cramp who exposure itself to forest of metal and cement. The potential threat is surfaced at the moment. Just as the invention of photography, if a recording is only as a record, a presence of evidence; or can be the secondary creation of the medium; to satisfied the listener's imagination for the recording, When the first gramophone appears, It seems that recording became genuine perhaps true, as Peter Szendy said, "transmit listeners'listen", then, subjective initiative and innovative listening will play a pivotal part.
If a field recording behavior able to realize the subject can absent, "initiative" abandoned the choice of the subject - selective recording, leisurely sleep, at the same time, everything is quietly happening. As Douglas Kahn points out in the <noise water meat>:" "phonograph" heard everything, it does not participate in the process management that seems like the human is filtering by subjective and psychological methods. Such as the realistic social scholars, field workers whose attitude for recording.
the concept of emphasizing the recording can achieve objective and ture.
When I press the recording button and turn off the recording key, the opening and closing action is the behavior of composition. placed in the contemporary context, as the Chinese sound artist Yan Jun said: "recording and creation" ( Subjective initiative) and no obvious difference,
the key is that I do not dream. neither through the field recording nor by playing electronic instruments or computer selection of musical instruments, gestures, or press the recording keys, all of them is the action of the composition even tiny meaningless Noise can also be a wonderful composer.
'I pressed the recording key = someone made a figurative music = Bach'
on condition that put the "phonological" ontology aside, focus on the Symbolisms of Heraldry and object content of phonological, whether in this track set or other, all the results of the recording, I press the recording button, I compose a song in my composition, the content is my behavior - I'm playing. now you are choosing which track to listen, and try to press the play button, and I am sitting by your side, now, I am present, witnessed the creation of "my creation 'I created' "And we heard together,
I, furthermore, I am that the exclusive initiative subject? In the era of Google, for the artists and creators, ordinary people's online behavior is very unfavorable to them, in the contemporary context, flattened all the layers, dictatorship and proprietary is impossible, everything becomes "democracy" - Deliver it from the political language.When I uploaded a field recording track to Google, the field of the recording suddenly extended to the clouds, the data carrying a desire of subjective area, radiation to all the initiative‘s impulse moment (listeners press Play button),
the world at the same time press the same player interface with a play button, under the influence of digital delay effect, this echo of an area is the best feedback, for the field of field recording, which may be 21st-century telecommunications, Digital contemporary for the best answer to Peter Szendy's question, the field recording is no longer a local loop on the slice, between the recording key and the playing key, the symbolic meaning of the recording is maximized, at the same time condensed into a visual recording keys and playback keys presented by the 2 to 3 square centimeters of the symbols, and the object details - the object of field recording, the way to open is a "real return", as I am in China Listen to masque chanteur dan man's "Temps yaha négor", oh! The real presence is so charming, thanks to God, I press the virtual play button on the screen, the sound came from the computer speakers, in addition to me, the one who potential non-presence subjective initiative is next door, the sound penetrates the wall, a little bit of sound into his ears, perhaps the moment of throbbing urge he to capture the next second but difficult to achieve, Because it was too ambiguous and vague. It is always ambiguous, repeat again.DAN man's mask song at this moment has become my 'composition', a next-door person is in the creative listening, we constitute a favorable dynamic relationship with each other.
Yes, April 28, 2017, the eve of China Labor Day, in the afternoon, the collective residence, I heard speaker shouting through the window, not far from a loudspeaker, shouting three times '1 2 3', and many command-type warning......probably for collective action, I am recording, I'm guessing and scheming