"Questions of media and its consequences on relationships to the real (Baudrillard), place and space (Virilio), and social patterns of behavior (Meyrowitz) feature throughout media theory."

"Inhabited rather than read"

—Brandon LaBelle Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art link

I'm starting to understand the often problematic (not my problem?) situation in which musicians tend to be the only ones who like music. They "inhabit" music by activating it, and their participation is surely either "a move from the phenomenal to the behavioral..." or a hybrid strategy of the two. The dance club then provides an environment in which someone without the interest or time to consider music's further formal potentials can activate themselves socially with/within the music by hearing, moving, interacting, and confronting/creating a dialogue with the dance club in a real experience. Thus music as electronic media gives those of us with less formal concerns a greater potential to activate ourselves and our music.