I agree with Car that this could be viewed as medicalising what appears to
be a trivial issue. However, playing devil's advocate there is some music I
could work with, there is other music, particularly played at what I would
consider high volume, that I would find very stressful, it would adversely
affect my concentration and I would probably go home with a splitting
headache. I can feel my anger rising when I am stopped at traffic lights
next to someone who is playing their choice of music very loudly inflicting
their musical taste on others similarly trapped. Extrapolating this to a
workplace this could become a H&S issue. I would be more than happy to have
Radio 4 transmitted in my workplace, I also love classical music, but I
would not inflict my entertainment choices on all my colleagues.
Unfortunately, not everyone has the same consideration for their work
colleagues. One man's meat is another man's poison.
Anne
On 09/08/2012 15:17, "Roisin Smyth" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Carr,
>
> I do take your point, but I wonder if this issue has some real medical aspects
> to it?
> I've looked at a few articles relating to the use of "Acoustic weapons" in
> warfare - see extract from one below:
>
> "These harassment missions work especially well in urban settings like
> Fallujah. The sounds just keep reverberating off the walls.² Abel added ³itıs
> not the music so much as the sound. Itıs like throwing a smoke bomb. The aim
> is to disorient and confuse the enemy to gain a tactical advantage² (DeGregory
> 2004). Abel made clear that although the tactic of bombarding the enemy with
> sound was made at the command level, the choice of music was left to soldiers
> in the field: ³...our guys have been getting really creative in finding sounds
> they think would make the enemy upset...These guys have their own mini-disc
> players, with their own music, plus hundreds of downloaded sounds. Itıs kind
> of personal preference how they choose the songs. Weıve got very young guys
> making these decisions² (DeGregory 2004). On the battlefield, then, the use of
> music as a weapon is perceived to be incidental to the use of soundıs ability
> to affect a personıs spatial orientation, sense of balance, and physical
> coordination. It is because music is incidental that the choice of repertoire
> is delegated to individual PsyOps soldiersı creativity."
>
> Regards,
> Roisin
>
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