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How I listen to music - Marginal REVOLUTION

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I’m wondering, have you ever done a post about how you listen to music? Hours per week, times of day, technologies, degree of multi-tasking, etc…and how you choose what to listen to at any given moment. I’d be interested. I go to plenty of concerts, but that is for another post. And I’ve already written about satellite radio. As for home, I like to listen to music most of the time, noting that if I am writing a) the music doesn’t bother me, and b) I don’t necessarily hear that much of the music. A few more specific points: 1. I don’t like to listen to “rock music” (broadly construed) in the morning. 2. I won’t listen to Mahler, Bruckner, or Brahms in the morning. They are evening music. 3. Renaissance music is best either in the morning or the evening. 4. I don’t listen to much jazz at home any more, though I am no less keen to see a good jazz concert live. Having already spent a lot of time with the great classics, at current margins I am disillusioned with most “jazz as recorded

Ian Leslie writes to me: I’m wondering, have you ever done a post about how you listen to music? Hours per week, times of day, technologies, degree of multi-tasking, etc…and how you choose what to listen to at any given moment. I’d be interested. I go to plenty of concerts, but that is for another post. And I’ve already written about satellite radio . As for home, I like to listen to music most of the time, noting that if I am writing a) the music doesn’t bother me, and b) I don’t necessarily hear that much of the music. A few more specific points: 1. I don&

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