"Music aestheticizes our lives. We walk around with headphones on and the sound colors everything we see. While listening Belle and Sebastian’s “Ease Your Feet Into the Sea” maybe life becomes something like a Wes Anderson movie, and the cute haircut on a girl waiting for the subway seems choreographed for that moment. Listen to Masonna’s Inner Mind Mystique and some random bored faces suddenly look gripped with pain. In 1983, the Japanese musicologist Shuhei Hosokawa wrote an article called “The Walkman as Urban Strategy” and said that the then-new device “provides the possibility of a private soundscape and provokes the dramatization of the walk act and the theatralization of a street."
from “Disintegration Loops and Simplesongs” By Mark Richardson, Pitchfork
(Source: tinkerkid)
