In the passage ” Ways of Hearing ” by Damon Krukowski begins with Episode #1″Time”. I am choosing  this topic “Time”. How is time representing  analog to digital sound and technology? Analog has to be sound more variable signal and real life and digital sound more advanced and it modified any situation like a digital audio in music recording and in radio or television     broadcast.

In paper #2, I would like to write about episode #4 of ways of hearing “Money” by Damon Krukowski. In this episode, he talked about objectifying music and making it like any material that could be bought and sold, and how that could impact our ways of hearing sounds. He affirmed that music should be freely accessible. Yes, music should be something that free of cost because music is for entertainment, and we can’t make this entertainment just for people who can pay for it because poor people need to enjoy as well. That would make more people listen to music which makes artists more famous with more fans. Now companies are becoming rapacious and turn music to a business that they could benefit from it, so we can’t just put the blame on artists. Some artists do singing as an avocation without caring about money, and street singers are a simple example of this. But, if we consider singing as a job, we can’t say it should be free because no one is willing to work without profits. It’s not fair because in some cases singing is a source of income for artists, and they need to sell their albums. Actually, it depends on the artists themselves. There are novice singers, and there are very famous singers who could make money in any way like concerts with huge profits. Therefore, I am kind of agree and disagree with what Krukowski discussed in the episode.

For my second paper, I would be writing about either a jazz club i worked at for 3 years or about how hip-hop and the blackout of 1977 in New York City correlate. The jazz club essay would most likely incorporate how my boss was obsessed with noise and signals. He wanted the music to be perfect which sometimes brought predicaments between band players and the sound booth. I think the episode “Noise” and “Power” would be great for that essay. I think im leaning towards the Hip-Hop essay because i love learning something new and i have a lot more to work with. The need for new equipment was crucial in the the beginning of the hip-hop era. The episodes, “Space” and “Money” would be great to incorporate into it.

In my paper I will be talking about episode #5 of ways of hearing, in which krukowski goes into detail about how it’s different to go out to a book store and buy books rather than just ordering them online, and also how big companies by the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Instagram etc, collect information about what you’re most likely to buy and/or be interested in and show them to you in the ways of short clips, mostly known as ads, creating this sort of forced exposure to what people see In a way of comforting them and not “surprising” them.

Mp3’, Mp4s, Music that we come to love and share amongst our own loved ones have come under threat by anti piracy laws . Laws that remove the freedom to share artistic creations to one another with no capital gain other than our own of enjoyment. Companies like Itunes feed into this need to share and listen to these musical works by putting a price tag on a 6.6 – 10 megabyte song , Enforced because of the possibility of Money . In my paper I will be analyzing Episode 4 of Ways of Hearing “Money” By Damon Krukowski. He makes some very interesting points about how File sharing has changed the way we hear sounds and music and how money is a necessity for artists and musicians, but it seems to be more important to larger companies who simply profit off of these artist’s talents.