Santiago Ruano Rincón <santiagorr@riseup.net> writes: > There will be music and dancing from 20h to 21h. If you feel that > the music is too loud, I think you will be able to find a quiet place > easily. If that's live music, might it be possible to ask the musicians to be unplugged, or at least to not try to completely swamp the area with sound. It has been repeatedly the case that musicians when told the size of the crowd, seem to think that they need to hire significant amplification. In the case of Extramadura, that involved the (brilliant) Flamenco singer managing to overwhelm the amp, which had been turned to 11. It seems that I'm particularly sensitive to clipping in sound systems, and it quite quickly results in my stirrup muscles twitching in my ears, which makes me even more deaf than I already am, and makes sure that I've no idea what anyone is saying around me. Since this is just the way things are for me in loud places, I'm pretty good at tolerating it, but I would prefer to be able to have a chat without everyone having to shout over the music (which of course makes the problem worse). At some point the extreme loudness of the band caused local residents to call in the noise control officers, and the band was shut down which was a blessed relief to pretty-much everyone that was there. At some point in this I had become irritable enough to complain to the band, which had also helped a bit. If your intention is to aim at provoking a level of noise-caused irritation that is just less than that which causes people to be moved to complain, that will probably ensure no complaints, but might not be the route to maximum happiness. Because the band were stopped from playing at the event, they offered us another performance, at the venue, and were persuaded to do it unplugged which was absolutely brilliant. In hindsight, they could have saved themselves the effort of setting up the crappy sound system, and everyone involved would have been much happier. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature