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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 00:36:54 +1100
From: ihobbs
Reply-To: caleb.k@innocent.com
To: mr.snow@laudanum.net
Subject: pfe no.1
1.
"Are we free, truly free, to choose what we see [hear]? Clearly not.
On the other hand, are we obliged, absolutely forced against our will
to perceive what is first merely suggested then imposed on everyone's
gaze? Not at all!" Paul Virilio 'Open Sky'
AN EXPERIMENT IN PUBLIC SPACE
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Play music which doesn't fit. Music which is "out of place".
Maybe this is loud music when peace is needed or quiet music at
a loud party. Maybe it is ambient when the audience just wants to sing
along, or break beat electronica when people are trying to talk.
See what happens.
People need music to be a back drop, to be part of the scenery.
What happens when they are hit with sound,
hit like a brick.
An experiment carried out in a cafe
- play music which pushes the boundaries,
music which no one in the room has ever come across.
This can take the form of crushing breaks (brand new),
how can one talk over erratic, time warping rhythms (eg Squarepusher).
They want jazz!
Or maybe music made from scratched cd's, music which sounds like the
cd is skipping (eg Oval).
The customers look up from their lattes,
just for a second, to glare at the coffee maker.
They want cruzey sounds.
What about ambient distortion, loud and atonal,music which makes the
hair on the back of ones neck stand on end
(maybe Panasonic or Jim O'Rourke).
This time a customer comes up to the bar,
"Can you turn that down please".
Another comes up soon after,
"Can you change that shit you are playing.
I can't fuckin well hear myself think!"
The point is they don't want to be pushed or challenged over their
flat white. They want to hear music they know or better still music
they can ignore
-some music refuses to be ignored!
But what of noise pollution?
P.F.E (permanent fatal errors)
Caleb k. caleb.k@innocent.com
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