I'm just gonna drop a couple of things here without overthinking it: - my ears shut themselves when they feel like: I don't even try to understand what speakers say at stations or airports (almost 100% chance it's not for me), I can learn or write with the radio talking... - while I am quite "good public" and like very different music styles, there is unfortunately still tons of music I can't stand ; i was known in my previous job for powering-off radios and stealing the remote control just in case. I listen much rather to my own car's motor than to bad radio. - I participated once in an art workshop about city sounds and... I proposed a part about silence - one of my previous job was to get international youngsters with difficult backgrounds to enjoy working together towards a common goal ; when visiting Berlin I brought them usually in small groups to the fantastic room of silence in Brandenburger Tor