Mel CampbellJust realised my #ABCClassic listening has really dropped off since I made a concerted effort to take public transport rather than driving my car
Years ago I stopped using earphones on public transport, and now sometimes I don’t even have any on me if I want to listen to something on my phone in public
And I’ve stopped really listening to music around the house unless it’s background for a task I’m doing with my hands. I’ve been so slammed with work recently that I haven’t had time to cook or tend my plants or do any of the mending, darning and clothing alterations I’ve meant to do
I prefer to work in monkish silence; my brain tends to get distracted by music and I go off on tangents of what it reminds me of
Exception: long YouTube playlists of unfamiliar baroque music; something about the orderliness of baroque music soothes my mind, but if I know the piece I’ll stop what I’m doing and just listen to it
The car is really where I listen to ABC Classic the most because it combines ‘doing something with my hands’ with short pieces of music that work well with the short drives I tended to do – to the shops, or to visit friends and family, or to film screenings at cinemas where the parking is better than the public transport
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