Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Music during Dinner in the C/H?

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

I was curious about Springhill Cohousing, so I'll share its website link:

http://www.therightplace.plus.com/coco/public/index.html

The Songaia "norm" is for the cook team to play the radio (basically, NPR)
or music if they so choose (they do for about 1/3 of our meals). Then the
sound system gets turned off when people start showing up. There has never,
to my memory, been any formal process around this pattern. And we have, a
few times, had recorded and live dinner music that somebody consciously made
happen.

I suspect the fact that we sing acapella as a group before about some meals,
having unrelated recorded sound during that would be pretty strange.

On 3/24/06, David <david [at] ic.org> wrote:
>
> I live in Springhill Cohousing in Stroud SW England. It's beautiful
> and fully occupied for 2 years.  We have been eating in the common
> house 4 times a week for just over a year. Occasionally the cooking
> team play music during the meal, often left over from preparation. I
> have a problem in mostly not liking music whilst I eat. Tonight I
> asked the cooking team leader if I could turn it off half way through
> the meal, she was fine with that. Another cohouser objected and
> thought that I shouldn't take unilateral action in turning it off and
> should at least seek some kind of consensus.
> I have discussed this with a few friends and neighbours, most people
> don't have strong opinions, a few like the music and another few
> don't like it. My view is that the status quo should be no music
> unless there is prior agreement to have it - but then I'm biassed and
> may not be able to see the issues clearly. People seem a little
> hesitant to have this issue come up at the residents meeting as it's
> just another in a long line of issues from parking to pets.
> Is this an issue in your community? What do you do? If it's never
> arisen as an issue why is that?
> thanks for listening
> David Michael
>
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