Scarcity of events raises their significance in slow music

Evidence

When this is done, it allows an alternative ecology to emerge – one based on events that are much less frequent. And that, of course, affects their significance. You are drawn to them in a sort of smiling fascination, rather than the usual pop music method of lapel grabbing bombardment. … Exactly, you can concentrate on any event very thoroughly, when that mode of perception is made available. Events become stately and welcome and valued and significant, and their arrival and departure can be fully experienced. The lack of jostling allows that sort of elegant notional space to open up. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 429

Categorization

• XREF: The scarcity-elevates-significance mechanism parallels chapter 20-21 on background culture, displacement, and functional media acquiring new power through distance and understatement. — connects to: What was background attention now evokes the past most powerfully — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 325; Timeless time arises when events lose duration, rhythm, and sequence — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 573

Broader Connections

• Timeless time arises when events lose duration, rhythm, and sequence #expands (0.75) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 573