By fighting musical paralysis and getting out of the cage, we will be surprised to find that there is actually so much good music out there. Just like food, no matter how much we like the music that is to our taste, there will be a point when we feel bored with that music. It is at this time that we can take advantage of it by listening to new music.
Melatih diri memilah suara hanya salah satu cara membentengi diri dari efek negatif kebisingan suara yang disebabkan kemacetan. Strategi besar mengatasi kemacetan di Yogyakarta atau Jakarta tentu tetap harus dirumuskan oleh pakar dan pemangku kebijakan. Karena kemacetan merugikan bagi ekonomi warga, dan suara bising yang ditimbulkannya menurunkan kualitas hidup masyarakat luas.
Listen to loud music with earphones or headsets are fun. It's as if the world around us has disappeared, there is only us and the music we listen to. This habit can be the right place to escape to forget for a moment the problems that surround us. However, the habit of listening to music loudly—both at speakers, or earphones/headsets actually very dangerous. Why? Because this habit can trigger hearing loss.
Let's criticize music and appreciate it better, learn to reason and cultivate feelings from music so that we can live as critical citizens who are keen to keep Indonesia moving in the right direction.
Ramainya festival musik yang diselenggarakan di Indonesia adalah bubble yang baru. Begitu banyaknya festival musik yang diadakan EO amatir ini menjadikan festival musik di Indonesia masuk di tahap awal sebuah bubble ekonomi. Jika dibiarkan, jangan heran jika akan ada titik ketika bubble ini meletus, dan banyak pihak yang akan dirugikan. Mulai dari promotor atau EO yang profesional akan ikut terkena imbasnya, para musisi juga tentu dirugikan.
Want your music to be famous? just make it viral on TikTok! Forget about artistic beauty for a moment, and make trendy music. Undoubtedly, fame will come to you.
Kita tidak boleh membiarkan band perempuan di kancah musik Indonesia berkarya di jalan yang sunyi. Kita harus memberi apresiasi lebih pada mereka, memberikan ruang yang sama dan setara untuk mereka, dan membicarakan mereka sebagai bagian dari diskursus dan diskusi musik Indonesia. Kita harus berani membongkar hyper-masculinity dan budaya patriarki yang telanjur bercokol kokoh di semua lini kehidupan, termasuk di kancah musik.
That's the reason I often leave Spotify lately and prefer to listen to a collection of physical releases or FLAC format music on my laptop. The seventy million songs on Spotify is too big a universe for me to explore at all. So, I changed the way I listen to music in this contemporary era. Back to analog format, for the convenience of listening to better music.
Looking at the case of torture with music at the Guantánamo prison in Cuba, I then concluded that without the awareness to listen to it at your own choice, music can turn into torture.
I thought about this for a long time: what is the use of music to humans and humanity? Is music just entertainment, a secondary matter that appears as an intermezzo in the midst of other life lines such as work, eat, sleep, make love? Or, music is a primary matter, an equally important part of life?
Aris Setyawan 