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• San Francisco, CA, March 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces the exhibition Art of Noise, on view May 4–August 18, 2024, celebrating groundbreaking design that enhances and visualizes our musical experiences.
• Art of Noise spans the gamut of design for music, from pioneering products and high-tech audio engineering to DIY graphics designed for live venues.
• Visitors can browse and shop records, CDs, tapes and music memorabilia from over 25 vendors, in addition to experiencing Art of Noise.
• In addition to our seven gallery floors, SFMOMA offers 45,000 square feet of free art-filled public space open to all.

• With this sharing, music streaming has altered the social experience of listening to music.
• So how does “Spotify snooping” and streaming music more generally change the way we listen to music?

The ubiquity of music

• To understand the changing nature of music listening, I interviewed 49 users of streaming services about how they listen to music.
• One key finding is these services render music more ubiquitous across everyday life.
• With technology it just allows things to be so simplified for us that we can just access music at a click of the finger.

• Music streaming technologies seek to shape how users engage with music through algorithmic features, such as platform-curated playlists.
• Users are required to navigate features that decide, filter and select what to expose listeners to.
• As one participant’s describes:
  I almost feel like stuck in a rut… I’m like, ‘I actually do really want to find something new.’ And I’ll go out and find that.
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  Stream weavers: the musicians' dilemma in Spotify's pay-to-play plan

Who’s listening in?

• One interviewee spoke of the “social pressure” to curate what he is listening to:
  I’m also slightly conscious of how much I’m listening to something and, you know, like it’s not … is it embarrassing, but is it?
• Should I be listening to more varied music because I want to seem, I don’t know, like should I listen to more varied music?
• Should I be listening to more varied music because I want to seem, I don’t know, like should I listen to more varied music?

• sometimes you listen to things in a personal context, you know, I guess if the music you’re listening to is reflective of how you’re feeling, you don’t necessarily want to reflect how you’re feeling or communicate how you’re feeling with other people.
• Another interviewee described once privately listening to songs on their iPod:
  it was sort of a bit anonymous as well.
• I like that you could just sort of you know … I could just be in bed, for example, with the headphones in listening and it wasn’t sort of necessarily recorded online.
• I like that you could just sort of you know … I could just be in bed, for example, with the headphones in listening and it wasn’t sort of necessarily recorded online.

Fading passions

• I feel less passionate about streaming services […] I think I just feel more passive with Spotify I guess, like, less active.
• I feel less passionate about streaming services […] I think I just feel more passive with Spotify I guess, like, less active.

• Streaming technologies not only change how we access music recordings but also are associated with changes in the social experience of listening to music.
• But it can also transform private acts of listening into public ones to be viewed with risk if not managed carefully.

Michael James Walsh does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

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