Music for airports

I really like both concept behind and music of Brian Eno’s Music for Airports. Take an otherwise stressful place and bring some calm, peace, and perhaps even a touch of joy with the right, low-key, music.

I’m recovering from my Amsterdam to Phoenix flights, and I’m convinced that the sensory experience of modern airports and flying makes it all much worse than it has to be. The harsh, bright lights inside the airports. The duty-free shops clamoring for your attention with smells, garish colors, and a cacophony of announcements. It’s all a bit too much.

The bright screens on seat backs are even worse. Everyone around me was watching movies with gratuitous violence, well everyone except Tania, who was watching the much more mellow Kung-Fu Panda.

For someone who doesn’t really watch that much TV, and prefers a quiet day at home reading a good book, the sensory overload is hard to deal with.

Despite all of the awareness of neurodiversity, there’s still a consumerist driven arms race of over-stimulation.