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Classical music against “undesirables”

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The municipality of Trois-Rivières in Québec has found a strange way to secure the local underground parking. The authorities have indeed installed headspeakers, playing around the clock classical music in the stairwells of this big parking lot.
With a high sound level, the municipality intends to disturb and drive anyone seeking refuge in the parking lot [...]

The lying down concert: a new concept?

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Some time ago, the famous ice cream brand Häagen-Dazs organized a two days event called “Dolce Heavenly Concert” in Tokyo. The “revolutionary” idea was to replace the hall seats with beds. The guests were therefore stretched out on luxury beds and had as much ice cream as they desired…

Noise in concert halls

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Today let’s speak about what occurs in the public during a concert. If certain halls are extraordinary quiet, others are absolutely not. The main problem of a concert hall: it is built to diffuse the sound, ALL sounds, so the noises too.
Among sound pollution of our concert halls, you can of course find the same [...]

The SACEM’s twists and turns

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At this end of January, my interest is focused on France and its SACEM. Does the “Society of the Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music” wish to deprive its members of diffusion?
Our team has decided a few weeks ago to put online for free some of my most recent recordings, in streaming and downloading versions. [...]