Muzak or music
What the hell is Muzak? It sounds like the name of a distant city out of Germany or something (Munich-Muzak). Yea not so much i didn’t think so either. I better get to the point. i guess what i am trying to say is that it sounds so much like the word music, i just thought i was hearing the z in there somewhere. It wasn’t until i actually saw it written down that i knew it was a different word with a different meaning.
Muzak – A trademark for recorded background music transmitted by wire on a subscription basis. Much like the scene in ‘Raising Arizona’ when Hi is robbing the grocery store and the voices cut out of the music, but the harmony still plays. Plays so you as the viewer can hear the characters interact but so there is no dead spots. Its almost as if you hear the movie, but it’s not the characters you hear, it’s the background music.
Just imagine delayed conversation. The anticipation for the other character or characters to respond. It’s would be like hearing toads burp in a mad silence. Or the tumbleweed crossing the deck, if that is easier to picture. Just DEAD AWKWARD silence. A movie is entertainment (most of the time). What is entertaining about silence?
So i guess i am in favor of the so called Muzak, it keeps the flow without creating so much attention you lose track of whats going on in the movie. At least it did for me, i had no idea what muzk even was until now.
