Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us
Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us
http://www.ted.com Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking fact about noisy open-plan offices.
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Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us
Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us
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If you could design a NEW system of Capitalism without Marketing and PR, then that would be interesting.
Capitalism (as we currently know it) is a system that rewards those who control and distort information in the market (ie: less-than-truthful advertising, etcetc) – for their benefit.
Those who hire the best lawyers, the best marketers, etc – Monopolize the market. Thereby making enough money to CONTINUE hiring the best lawyers & marketers – preserving their unfair market dominance.
Making people work in open spaces is so short sighted.
why should he?
But as far as this guy is concerned for most people traffic noise is just a form of environmental stress. Having a dozen stereos playing different mozart peces at full volume at the same time would have the same effect.
Music with voices become a distraction in schools because when you think you focus on your own voice in your head and to have another voice singing words at the same time does not help. So music with no vocals would be ok.
engines also distroy our planet 🙂
The whole "open" working environment thing is really just a show, you know, the "transparency" thing… And it's easier for the management to spot slackers – A textbook caution/monitor system based on the notion of the type B theory of "employees are untrustworthy/ people are lazy."
This just shows why empirical testing is important. Probs to Mr. Treasure for debunking the theory!
By "type B theory" you've meant Douglas Mcgregor's theory X for human behavior at work
Oh my bad, I mixed up that with economist behavior description… Thanks for the correction 🙂
JULIAN- I AM SOOOO GRATEFULL FOR THIS VIDEO>THANKYOU, THANKYOU, THANKYOU!!!! (x-flight attendant)
1min30s ADAGIO IN G MINOR FTW!
Very thought provoking – am packing my headphones for work tomorrow!
03:53 what song was that?
I used to work as a club decorator in some of the best (and worst) clubs in the UK.
I got to know some of the best sound engineers around.
here is a clue.
The worst clubs turn up the music in the vocal range, so all people can do is say "WHAT DID YOU SAY?" and "A BEER, I SAID BEER PLEASE
The worst clubs tune the EQ to kill talking.
They do it deliberately, because killing conversation sells beer, keeping it dark sells beer. light on the bar sells beer.
good clubs allow people to dance & talk.
Interesting talk
@marsCubed Great point. I guess other reasons club play too much treble are that big sub woofers are expensive? We need to base our music on the sonic environment of nature, which is full of pink noise. I wish club owners / djs would stop hurting my ears!!
Arg, the song that's playing when he's talking about behavior @2:32 is on the tip of my tongue but I can't remember it. Anybody know it?
I want to say it's in one of the Blade Soundtracks….
@thenub641 Ok, nevermind my question, I was right, it is from the first Blade movie.
/watch?v=mvexKA4_xsI&feature=related
@marsCubed
Interesting 🙂
@holdendp
Working at Big Blue, HUGE open office, constant chatter, constant laughing, constant phone ringing. It sucks. It's tiring, it's distractive, it's counterproductive.
@returnoftheramble3 how is that?
@thenub641 I believe it's called the 'Bloodbath Dance' 🙂
@sugasuga722 That's what they've heard A Hard Days Night by The Beatles v=0cpxzAZXppQ
You have the most exciting subject in TED community. I am very interested in the world of sound, the language of sound. Thank you.
no i'm not gonna listen to bird songs , instead i'm gonna crank up "pump the blood up" and do 100 on a freeway !!
ahahahahahaha
kind of ironic that on a TED talk about sound, the add for IBM Smarter Planet is muted !!
he's an elf
Interesting observation. Would be cool if used your hypothesis.
I tend to drive faster and more aggressively when I listen to two steps from hell.
Just to say that if you want to follow up in more detail on any of the ideas in my four TED talks, my courses are now up on Udemy.com. Just search for me there and you'll find four high quality video courses, the introductory one completely free, with intensives on conscious listening, powerful speaking and soundscape design for health, productivity and better relationships now all live too. Happy listening!
Beatles!
2:36 i used play crazy techno while driving at 16&+ and not once had a fender bender nor speeded in residential areas… perhaps because i had one hand out the window surfing breez and enjoying all of presence ? ~ I'm much more considerate now then strolling through anywhere anyhow now though…..
1:48 If you can think quickly enough, you can listen to two peoples' sentences. I've done it on a longer time basis than the presented example… but the acoustic environment presented via two recorded stereo signals is much less descriptive than the reality in which you might be able to listen to two sentences at once. (Infinite points of reverberation and a signal source that has microscopic contours vs. a certain number of speaker diaphragms reverberating to represent the sound.) I heard the sentences simultaneously, they entered my short term memory, and then I analyzed both correctly and heard every word. Szechuan in Ghent.
Wtf is up with the last 3 minutes of the video…???
3:53 what was that? It's familiar, but I can't place it.
REALLY GOOD!
Only 1:35 but this seems so very good.
Dope
this is very true! i work in retail and i can say listening to music helped my productivity 10 times over but he should've touched on the fact that listening to the same music over and over for 6 hours can effect us as well. my work started to feel like a routine and wasn't fun anymore. and they played songs that i actually liked but now every time i hear them I'm instantly tired of them and turn the station. it doesn't matter how long it has been since I've heard the song it feels like I've been hearing it over and over again.
Excelente work
1:48 fucking pop ups, where did th… Oh, wait xD
At 6:19 the sound goes away anybody else experiencing this?
What's the name of that song at 2:34?
people need to listen to more trance
What's music? 1:22
rather interesting, listening to this and suddenly the birds outside my window is singing loudly. Or Have i attune to it 🙂
Cool
This was powerfully syncratic this morning. As I just left a space abusive situation where sound heavily used to create the fear /flight response. I was using headphones for the reasons you give, and yet in the end simply had to leave, leaving has left me at a disadvantage as I really need a solid and safe bace in order to grow and create an income. I intuit/see/feel/sence that the use sound to confuse and harm is enormous in the world right now and like you wish for this to change. Emotional bullies use this form 'torment' constantly.. Ommm om om
I hate this ted talk