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Kurt wrote: Muzak (and the like) may be the music of choice for use in a commercial environment, but it doesn't seem that there's any specific qualities of that music that designed to interface with the _acoustic_ qualities of the commercial space . . . I think I might be mistakenly responding to last week's discussion instead of this one....but I suppose my point is that "space and music" isn't a very rewarding subject anymore, unless it's imaginary space that's being discussed. David replies: Nothing wrong with a bit of confusion. I'm inclined to agree, after a week of discussing 'space and music', that it's not a particularly rewarding subject, though certain interesting issues have been raised. Imaginary space, yes, but as we saw at the beginning of the week, that suject can wheel out of control in the blink of an eye. In a certain sense, Muzak does have a specific quality designed to interface with the acoustic qualities of commercial space in that its lack of dynamic diversity and loudspeaker friendly characteristics lend an omni-pervasive quality that corresponds to the dream state environment of the supermarket and the ubiquity of the loudspeaker. We're talking retrospectively, since Muzak seems to be a dying 'art'. The J.G. Ballard fan in me almost regrets that.