Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective on.
We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington. Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2 or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music to the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or week.
When one of our playlists end, the silence is deafening. It's a mad scramble to turn the music back on.
Even if people don't like the music on, a little ambient noise has a huge impact on people's willingness to converse. They don't feel like they are "breaking the silence.
BONUS POINTS: take member-submitted playlists or stations and rotate them. When people enjoy what's on, they often say so out loud and you can commend the member author and make sure they know each other :)
On Monday, August 13, 2012 at 6:34 PM, RedRokk wrote:
> Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective on.
> We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington. Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2 or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music to the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or week.
I think it is a good thing, depending on what it is. We have a couple of
members who play quite a bit of music over the big speakers from their own
collections or from rdio, spotify, etc. When they are not here it seems
pretty quiet.
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:34 PM, RedRokk <b...@redrokk.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective
> on.
> We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington.
> Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2
> or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music
> to the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is
> developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to
> make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or
> week.
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same thing here at Tau (France, Toulouse) we started plugging a pair
of speakers to one laptop some weeks ago and now the cable jump from
one laptop to another depending on who's here what's been played, the
mood etc ...
I think (and have experienced) that background music do help to keep a
better mood around and probably allows people to "forget" about people
based noise that come with a filled space (people walking, whispering,
phone ringing, doors opening etc ...)
on a practical manner : I've been looking at github hubot and play
(https://github.com/play/play/) for some time and plan to test such a
setup (related article : http://zachholman.com/screencast/play/).
Z. Holman article is also interesting on the human side of having a
common, community managed, music stream going on.
you could also use things like spotify and deezer to share, edit and
play playlists I suppose, and from my university's years I remember
tons of open source projects to handle "web based" jukeboxes
anyone got tips about the "hardware" side to setup this ? small form
factor pc, media friendly pcs ?
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Tom Brandt <twbra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it is a good thing, depending on what it is. We have a couple of
> members who play quite a bit of music over the big speakers from their own
> collections or from rdio, spotify, etc. When they are not here it seems
> pretty quiet.
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:34 PM, RedRokk <b...@redrokk.com> wrote:
>> Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective
>> on.
>> We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington.
>> Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2
>> or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music to
>> the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is
>> developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to
>> make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or
>> week.
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We play background music at http://fruitworks.co usually rotating popular radio stations or Spotify. We used it to get through the "quiet startup days" but now we're busier we still play it. We use a pair of 2.1 speakers plugged into a laptop but because our space is quite large, it's hard to get the sound to travel without being too loud at one end, so we're currently installing 6.1 speakers with the satellites mounted around the far corners of the space etc.
A member here made a shared music server in a hackathon - we haven't had chance to set it up yet and we're hoping that by the end of the next hackathon this month, the Mac OSX and Windows GUI clients for it will be done. If so, I'm sure he'll make it all open source.
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On 14 Aug 2012, at 16:22, Thomas <ribou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> same thing here at Tau (France, Toulouse) we started plugging a pair
> of speakers to one laptop some weeks ago and now the cable jump from
> one laptop to another depending on who's here what's been played, the
> mood etc ...
> I think (and have experienced) that background music do help to keep a
> better mood around and probably allows people to "forget" about people
> based noise that come with a filled space (people walking, whispering,
> phone ringing, doors opening etc ...)
> on a practical manner : I've been looking at github hubot and play
> (https://github.com/play/play/) for some time and plan to test such a
> setup (related article : http://zachholman.com/screencast/play/).
> Z. Holman article is also interesting on the human side of having a
> common, community managed, music stream going on.
> you could also use things like spotify and deezer to share, edit and
> play playlists I suppose, and from my university's years I remember
> tons of open source projects to handle "web based" jukeboxes
> anyone got tips about the "hardware" side to setup this ? small form
> factor pc, media friendly pcs ?
> TR
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Tom Brandt <twbra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think it is a good thing, depending on what it is. We have a couple of
>> members who play quite a bit of music over the big speakers from their own
>> collections or from rdio, spotify, etc. When they are not here it seems
>> pretty quiet.
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:34 PM, RedRokk <b...@redrokk.com> wrote:
>>> Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective
>>> on.
>>> We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington.
>>> Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2
>>> or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music to
>>> the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is
>>> developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to
>>> make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or
>>> week.
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We have speakers that carry music through two of the rooms, which is the lounge and energy room (group high tops), and doesn't play throughout the rest of the space. This helps gives each of our rooms a different feel based on how people want to work for the day. The music is not very loud but it seems awkward when the music stops.
We have an iPod touch connected to the speakers so we can play their playlist through it or commonly pick a Pandora playlist. Any member can pick the playlist and I usually start it each morning and then someone may change it after lunch.
> We have speakers that carry music through two of the rooms, which is the lounge and energy room (group high tops), and doesn't play throughout the rest of the space. This helps gives each of our rooms a different feel based on how people want to work for the day. The music is not very loud but it seems awkward when the music stops.
> We have an iPod touch connected to the speakers so we can play their playlist through it or commonly pick a Pandora playlist. Any member can pick the playlist and I usually start it each morning and then someone may change it after lunch.
> Craig
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Call me a contrarian, but I like quiet, or at least conversation as background noise. I don't think I'd rent space in an office with background music. That's for elevators and dentists offices.
> Call me a contrarian, but I like quiet, or at least conversation as background noise. I don't think I'd rent space in an office with background music. That's for elevators and dentists offices.
> Miles Fidelman
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Same at our Enterprise Hubs Miles - think members would 'walk'(not dance)!
Fay
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Call me a contrarian, but I like quiet, or at least conversation as
background noise. I don't think I'd rent space in an office with background
music. That's for elevators and dentists offices.
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Most people in my office end up listening to music on their headphones but
they they all kinda zone out of the community, some music playing lightly
in the background, just enough to stimulate some conversation but not
enough to distract me.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net
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> background noise. I don't think I'd rent space in an office with
> background music. That's for elevators and dentists offices.
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To be honest, we've had one member openly say "I need absolute quiet in my office" and that member doesn't come in as often now, however the majority of our members said they preferred background music and so we opted for it. Also, when new people now come in for tours they see the music there, so people don't signup if its something they don't want in the space.
When people want to focus or phase out, they just "plug in" as normal and listen to their own thing.
- Liam
On 14 Aug 2012, at 17:16, "Fay Easton" <i...@shrewsburyenterprise.co.uk> wrote:
> Same at our Enterprise Hubs Miles - think members would ‘walk’(not dance)!
> Fay
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> Call me a contrarian, but I like quiet, or at least conversation as background noise. I don't think I'd rent space in an office with background music. That's for elevators and dentists offices.
> Miles Fidelman
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We installed in-ceiling speakers during our remodel for background music
and to be used for presentations and talks. We have an Airport Express
hooked up to the system as an Airplay device people can stream to. We also
looked at options like SiriusXM and Pandora. We decided not to run the risk
of any copyright problems and are going with Pandora for
Business<http://www.pandora.com/everywhere/business>.
I figure we can always drop the subscription and let folks use headphones
and do their own thing. Sadly, the only over the air radio we can receive
is Top 40 with plenty of ads, so that's out.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:02 PM, John Wilker <john.wil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We use a central mac mini running Pandora and have a seed station request
> form on one of the white boards
> Works well, it's quieter farther back into the building and of course
> headphones come out when Rick Astly comes on.
> On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Craig Baute - Creative Density
> Coworking wrote:
> We have speakers that carry music through two of the rooms, which is the
> lounge and energy room (group high tops), and doesn't play throughout the
> rest of the space. This helps gives each of our rooms a different feel
> based on how people want to work for the day. The music is not very loud
> but it seems awkward when the music stops.
> We have an iPod touch connected to the speakers so we can play their
> playlist through it or commonly pick a Pandora playlist. Any member can
> pick the playlist and I usually start it each morning and then someone may
> change it after lunch.
> Craig
> Creative Density
> Denver
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Most people end up using their own music but it encourages people to talk. We noticed before we added music, people whispered or were afraid to talk much in the main area. The music helps make it more obvious, that noise is ok.
Certainly a too each their own. We keep ours loud enough to hear but not so loud your own music would be drowned out.
On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Matthew Arkin wrote:
> Most people in my office end up listening to music on their headphones but they they all kinda zone out of the community, some music playing lightly in the background, just enough to stimulate some conversation but not enough to distract me.
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net (mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net)> wrote:
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yes, similar things happened for us, everybody was soldered to their
headsets and earplugs to be able to focus
one day the speakers ended up on the new standing desk and nobody in
that room said anything about the speakers being plugged. the volume
is not loud, and when someone wants to focus that person generally get
the headset out, go to another room or we all switch to headsets.
in the end, the speakers did help making talks and communication
easier avoiding the "locked away" effect,
as usual proceed with community approval / talks I suppose
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> Most people in my office end up listening to music on their headphones but
> they they all kinda zone out of the community, some music playing lightly in
> the background, just enough to stimulate some conversation but not enough to
> distract me.
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Miles Fidelman
> <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>> Call me a contrarian, but I like quiet, or at least conversation as
>> background noise. I don't think I'd rent space in an office with background
>> music. That's for elevators and dentists offices.
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Hi all, Here in C3, we have different areas, and on one of them, which fits about 35 desks, we play music, and is called the music room. It has been really popular! The level of background noise to allow for conversations to spring about can also be achieved by installing white noise (sounds like HVAC system), it is quite effective, and people jsut think it is something that is part of the building - so people that "can't" work with music playing wont complain. We have white noise in the rest of the space. We also have a quiet space (where talking isn't cool), which is our counter part to the music room, so people have freedom to choose where they sit, and it seems to be working quite well for us.. The music room is our "loud" room, so it labeled as being the room where talking on the phone for a long time is ok (we have desks set up with phones actually), play videos, have louder team meetings etc... If you have big enough a space to have different areas like this, I highly recommend it... Sidi
On Monday, August 13, 2012 6:34:49 PM UTC-4, RedRokk wrote:
> Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective > on.
> We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington. > Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2 > or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music > to the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is > developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to > make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or > week.
I haven't read anything particular on what kind of music you play.
A piece of advice from our own experience : Jazz. Jazz *swings* and we all know that SWING is what coworking brings to this world.
In late January we hosted the local Startup Weekend and on Sunday morning, after two tough nights, people were really exhausted. I decided to put some Billie Holiday songs. For those of you who know her, her voice is one of the most powerful music has known. Simple outcome : it gave enough strengh to startupers to carry on until Sunday evening.
Jazz.
*prozelitizing time* : ). And this is an example among many others.
Here at CoVis CoWorking we have a SONOS <http://www.sonos.com> sound system which lets anyone set-up playlists and whatnot on pretty much any device available. It's great, as silence can be deafening, but it's also a great source of conversation as we all chit-chat about whatever song/artist someone has chosen. Music is sorta that universal language that can bring people together pretty quickly, IMHO.
-- Skid Vis -- CoVis CoWorking - www.covisco.com Omaha, Nebraska
As to what kind of music, at Uncubed it's pretty eclectic. We ask for seed artists and pick a different pandora station each day. It ranges from gangsta grass (which is hilarious if you've never listened), to jazz, to 80's rock and most everything in between.
Sometimes folks will get up and just change the station too, the machine that runs it is wide open so they can down vote a song or change songs/stations.
We really wanted to use something like turntable.fm where folks who wanted to contribute could, but it doesn't have a "muzak" mode so every person in the room would be downloading the music even if their machine was muted.. Seemed a waste of bandwidth
On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Skid Vis wrote:
> Here at CoVis CoWorking we have a SONOS (http://www.sonos.com) sound system which lets anyone set-up playlists and whatnot on pretty much any device available. > It's great, as silence can be deafening, but it's also a great source of conversation as we all chit-chat about whatever song/artist someone has chosen.
> Music is sorta that universal language that can bring people together pretty quickly, IMHO.
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On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 11:02 AM, John Wilker wrote:
> As to what kind of music, at Uncubed it's pretty eclectic. We ask for seed artists and pick a different pandora station each day. It ranges from gangsta grass (which is hilarious if you've never listened), to jazz, to 80's rock and most everything in between.
> Sometimes folks will get up and just change the station too, the machine that runs it is wide open so they can down vote a song or change songs/stations.
> We really wanted to use something like turntable.fm (http://turntable.fm) where folks who wanted to contribute could, but it doesn't have a "muzak" mode so every person in the room would be downloading the music even if their machine was muted.. Seemed a waste of bandwidth
> On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Skid Vis wrote:
> > Here at CoVis CoWorking we have a SONOS (http://www.sonos.com) sound system which lets anyone set-up playlists and whatnot on pretty much any device available. > > It's great, as silence can be deafening, but it's also a great source of conversation as we all chit-chat about whatever song/artist someone has chosen.
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We always have our dials in Seattle tuned to KEXP, the greatest radio
station on earth. :) You can stream it via kexp.org.
To add into the general conversation, we find that having a little bit of
background music, even if it's quiet, helps to even out the overall "tone"
of our space. There is something eerie about having no background music in
our space - makes it feel more like a library and less like a coworking
space to me.
But to each space their own, right? That's the whole idea - do what your
community digs.
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Alex Hillman
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> Same here - we use Songza playlists quite a bit, and a number of our
> members have taken to building Spotify playlists that are rather good.
> It's mixed, like others have said. And if someone doesn't like what's
> playing, we happily take requests in the form of new playlist
> recommendations :)
> -Alex
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> On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 11:02 AM, John Wilker wrote:
> As to what kind of music, at Uncubed it's pretty eclectic. We ask for
> seed artists and pick a different pandora station each day. It ranges from
> gangsta grass (which is hilarious if you've never listened), to jazz, to
> 80's rock and most everything in between.
> Sometimes folks will get up and just change the station too, the machine
> that runs it is wide open so they can down vote a song or change
> songs/stations.
> We really wanted to use something like turntable.fm where folks who
> wanted to contribute could, but it doesn't have a "muzak" mode so every
> person in the room would be downloading the music even if their machine was
> muted.. Seemed a waste of bandwidth
> On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Skid Vis wrote:
> Here at CoVis CoWorking we have a SONOS <http://www.sonos.com> sound
> system which lets anyone set-up playlists and whatnot on pretty much any
> device available.
> It's great, as silence can be deafening, but it's also a great source of
> conversation as we all chit-chat about whatever song/artist someone has
> chosen.
> Music is sorta that universal language that can bring people together
> pretty quickly, IMHO.
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We used a spare laptop and speakers to stream WOXY (Cincy and Austin folks
in particular may remember them; to say I was a big fan is an
understatement), but when they went down we switched to NPR (where a former
WOXY DJ also worked) or KEXP or the Underground 80s SomaFM, or sometimes a
custom playlist on Winamp or Grooveshark.
We were always careful to play work-appropriate music and at a low volume.
I hate soundwars, so if someone else wanted to play something, either the
main music gets turned off, of they put on headphones. The volume is always
at a respectful level for others who are working, on a call, concentrating,
etc.
We are also on a busy street, so in the spring, summer, and fall we have
outside noise that helps with whitenoise, but in the dead of winter (or the
dead of summer when we close all windows and have the a/c on) we needed a
little extra something. Music worked!
r.
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On 15 August 2012 12:19, Susan Evans <su...@officenomads.com> wrote:
> We always have our dials in Seattle tuned to KEXP, the greatest radio
> station on earth. :) You can stream it via kexp.org.
> To add into the general conversation, we find that having a little bit of
> background music, even if it's quiet, helps to even out the overall "tone"
> of our space. There is something eerie about having no background music in
> our space - makes it feel more like a library and less like a coworking
> space to me.
> But to each space their own, right? That's the whole idea - do what your
> community digs.
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Alex Hillman <
> dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Same here - we use Songza playlists quite a bit, and a number of our
>> members have taken to building Spotify playlists that are rather good.
>> It's mixed, like others have said. And if someone doesn't like what's
>> playing, we happily take requests in the form of new playlist
>> recommendations :)
>> -Alex
>> --
>> /ah
>> indyhall.org
>> coworking in philadelphia
>> On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 11:02 AM, John Wilker wrote:
>> As to what kind of music, at Uncubed it's pretty eclectic. We ask for
>> seed artists and pick a different pandora station each day. It ranges from
>> gangsta grass (which is hilarious if you've never listened), to jazz, to
>> 80's rock and most everything in between.
>> Sometimes folks will get up and just change the station too, the machine
>> that runs it is wide open so they can down vote a song or change
>> songs/stations.
>> We really wanted to use something like turntable.fm where folks who
>> wanted to contribute could, but it doesn't have a "muzak" mode so every
>> person in the room would be downloading the music even if their machine was
>> muted.. Seemed a waste of bandwidth
>> On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Skid Vis wrote:
>> Here at CoVis CoWorking we have a SONOS <http://www.sonos.com> sound
>> system which lets anyone set-up playlists and whatnot on pretty much any
>> device available.
>> It's great, as silence can be deafening, but it's also a great source of
>> conversation as we all chit-chat about whatever song/artist someone has
>> chosen.
>> Music is sorta that universal language that can bring people together
>> pretty quickly, IMHO.
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Sounds fantastic Nicolas - am a great believer in the power of music to
restore the spirit.
Lucky StartUps.
Fay
From: coworking@googlegroups.com [mailto:coworking@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Nicolas Bergé
Sent: 15 August 2012 09:37
To: coworking@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Coworking] Re: Background Music in a Coworking Space
Guys,
I haven't read anything particular on what kind of music you play.
A piece of advice from our own experience : Jazz. Jazz *swings* and we all
know that SWING is what coworking brings to this world.
In late January we hosted the local Startup Weekend and on Sunday morning,
after two tough nights, people were really exhausted. I decided to put some
Billie Holiday songs. For those of you who know her, her voice is one of the
most powerful music has known. Simple outcome : it gave enough strengh to
startupers to carry on until Sunday evening.
Jazz.
*prozelitizing time* : ). And this is an example among many others.
Nicolas Bergé
Les Satellites
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I work in a co-working place in Paris (check Mutinerie). We do have some background music and coworkers like it. Maybe you should submit the idea to all members and see if they agree. I suggest you take a look at our space just to see how it looks like and for some inspiration. Here's the link: http://www.mutinerie.org/en/mutineries-map/
On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 12:34:49 AM UTC+2, RedRokk wrote:
> Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective > on.
> We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington. > Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2 > or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music > to the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is > developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to > make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or > week.
wow Fantastic replies to this post, thanks everyone.
From what I am reading the general consensus is that music is great for making the space more vibrant and welcoming. It sounds like the best way to go when possible, is to break sound by rooms. I really like the playlist idea, and think running a hackathon would be a great way to introduce it.
On Monday, August 13, 2012 3:34:49 PM UTC-7, RedRokk wrote:
> Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective > on.
> We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington. > Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2 > or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music > to the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is > developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to > make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or > week.
