2008 Woodie Awards
Words from 91.1 Mhz
Nicholas Ruebel / WTSC General Manager
Issue date: 1/21/08 Section: Entertainment
With the advent of digital music came the ability to enjoy "your" music whenever and wherever you go. Walking to class or jogging around the track, it's there. The infamous iPod was not the first portable music device, but it was the first device that allowed entire libraries of music to travel with ease. What once would fill an entire room with records now fits in the palm of your hand.
At first thought this seemed like a dream come true: all the music you could find, traveling wherever you go, available at the push of a button. Put the headphones on and no one else can hear what you're hearing. In most cases, you can't hear what they are saying as well.
Not only does it travel with you, but you can get the music from your own CD collection or by downloading from a mysterious wire in the wall connected to your computer. It lacks something though. Where is the ever-so-critical album artwork? Even more important, where is the sweat and tears the artist puts on display for everyone to see at a venue?
With the ability to hear anything and everything comes the responsibility to experience music and explore what it has to offer our mind. This doesn't mean going to a website that tells you what new music is good and downloading it. It means that you must listen to things you normally wouldn't and decide for yourself if you like it or not. Too often we ignore what we don't like, or don't give new things a chance to change our lives because we are affected by what others say. We stick ourselves in the odd position of liking only what we like and nothing else.
As DJs at WTSC, we are not telling you what to listen to. We are sharing the music we like with you in hopes that you will hear something you haven't before. You will not enjoy everything we like. We play songs on air that we ourselves have never heard before. It's up to you to decide what's "good" and what's not. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you don't like, someone else wont fall in love with. P.S. WTSC stands for Thomas S. Clarkson.
At first thought this seemed like a dream come true: all the music you could find, traveling wherever you go, available at the push of a button. Put the headphones on and no one else can hear what you're hearing. In most cases, you can't hear what they are saying as well.
Not only does it travel with you, but you can get the music from your own CD collection or by downloading from a mysterious wire in the wall connected to your computer. It lacks something though. Where is the ever-so-critical album artwork? Even more important, where is the sweat and tears the artist puts on display for everyone to see at a venue?
With the ability to hear anything and everything comes the responsibility to experience music and explore what it has to offer our mind. This doesn't mean going to a website that tells you what new music is good and downloading it. It means that you must listen to things you normally wouldn't and decide for yourself if you like it or not. Too often we ignore what we don't like, or don't give new things a chance to change our lives because we are affected by what others say. We stick ourselves in the odd position of liking only what we like and nothing else.
As DJs at WTSC, we are not telling you what to listen to. We are sharing the music we like with you in hopes that you will hear something you haven't before. You will not enjoy everything we like. We play songs on air that we ourselves have never heard before. It's up to you to decide what's "good" and what's not. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you don't like, someone else wont fall in love with. P.S. WTSC stands for Thomas S. Clarkson.
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