No Music Day

[DJWrongspeed]

music helps keep me sane

on the 25 of nov, is buy nothing day, i'd much rather support that
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i think there's quite an overlap between the 2 days to be honest, the claim that you couldn't go without music for a day is illuminating.

 

[rich!]

I once went for a 2 month period where I hardly heard any music at all. When I started to listen to it again my enjoyment of music had increased ten-fold.

A chap I know spent some time in Russia as part of the MBA-airlift. He said that one day he was in a meeting, and realised he'd got up and walked out and halfway across the factory. It was the first music he'd heard in about 3 months - and he'd just followed it.

 

[gentlegreen]

With headphones? That's very dangerous.

Speak for yourself.

If you're incapable of walking and chewing gum, perhaps.

(I've done it twice every working day for nearly 20 years)

 

[gentlegreen]

Not on No Getting Squashed By A Lorry Day, it's not.

Not getting squashed by a lorry is all about road positioning. - seeing and being seen.

 

[RubyToogood]

I think this is an excellent idea.

 

[Onket]

Not getting squashed by a lorry is all about road positioning. - seeing and being seen.

And a bit about hearing the lorry.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Lots of people saying that it's ridiculous or stupid, but not saying why.

Coz it has no purpose, no point.

 

[twistedAM]

Lots of people saying that it's ridiculous or stupid, but not saying why.

Are you all so addicted to music that you can't go without it for one day?

For me, it's just another Bill Drummond Needs Some Press Day.

I will be listening to Tammy Wynette.

 

[Maggot]

Coz it has no purpose, no point.

You didn't read the article, did you.

 

[gentlegreen]

And a bit about hearing the lorry.

Purely academic I would have thought if the driver was so psychopathic to have avoided visual detection. It is my preference not to see death coming

 

[Dj TAB]

What a pile O' SHITE....!

It's crap like this that makes me

 

[Onket]

Purely academic I would have thought if the driver was so psychopathic to have avoided visual detection. It is my preference not to see death coming

Heh!

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

You didn't read the article, did you.

I did, it's pretentious toss.

 

[Dubversion]

like i said on the other thread ( http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=180043&highlight=drummond ) Drummond's a genius - i think it's a great idea.

 

[Dj TAB]

bleat bleat baaaah baaaah!

I'm an inconsequential little turd incapable of independant thought, don't make me make my mind up about something please!

 

[zeedoodles]

He did a big interview in the Observer a couple of weeks ago about this.
Have to say I am a fan of his but after reading the article I thought what a load of twaddle. Will definatly not be observing this.

 

[Iam]

bleat bleat baaaah baaaah!

I'm an inconsequential little turd incapable of independant thought, don't make me make my mind up about something please!

"Help, help, my ipod is oppressing me!!"

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

i think it's a great idea.

Why, exactly?

For the life of me I can't see any point / reason for it...

 

[Dubversion]

bleat bleat baaaah baaaah!

I'm an inconsequential little turd incapable of independant thought, don't make me make my mind up about something please!

is that aimed at me?

 

[Dubversion]

Why, exactly?

for the reasons he stated.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

for the reasons he stated.

I wanted to take in the making of music itself in the hope that it might exist away from the consumable formats of recorded music and away from the concert platform. I even have fantasies about waking up to find that all music has disappeared from the world. We can't even remember what it sounded like. We knew we had music, we knew it was important to us. In my fantasy we would have to start making music again from a year zero situation, with nothing but our voices

Errrr, yeah

 

[Dubversion]

i was thinking more

No Music Day is an aspiration, an idea, an impossible dream, a nightmare.

There are as many reasons for marking No Music Day as there are people willing to observe it - or reject it.

No Music Day is on the 21st of November this and every year.
No Music Day is on the 21st of November because the 22nd of November is Saint Cecilia's day. Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of music. In many countries the 22nd of November was the day chosen to give thanks for and to celebrate the existence of music.

No Music Day has nothing to sell.
There is no mission statement.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

So, pretentious arty bollocks then

 

[Dubversion]

i don't think so. But if it makes you happy...

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

i don't think so. But if it makes you happy...

Seriously, explain it to me then...

 

[Dubversion]

Seriously, explain it to me then...

I don't need to, i don't think. You think it's rubbish, i don't. And as Drummond says, there doesn't have to be one reason.

Basically, from my POV: music is everywhere, we're surrounded by it. Perhaps it's devalued by its ubiquity. Perhaps it would be nice to have a think about it, in its absence.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

music is everywhere, we're surrounded by it. Perhaps it's devalued by its ubiquity. Perhaps it would be nice to have a think about it, in its absence.

But music is everywhere, (4'33" anyone?) so it's absence is impossible...

 

[Dubversion]

But music is everywhere, (4'33" anyone?) so it's absence is impossible...

That's rubbish

Or do you assume - whenever you 'hear' silence, or as near to it as we get, that somebody nearby is playing a John Cage record?

 

[Dirty Martini]

It's a nice article, pure Bill Drummond, and I like the idea. I don't know why people are getting het up about it, he's been asking these quiet, off-the-wall questions for years.

In my fantasy we would have to start making music again from a year zero situation, with nothing but our voices

I'd like to think we've seen the last of The Flying Pickets though.

 

[Dubversion]

also - this exchange re: music / silence / John Cage. That's interesting - deciding what music is. Another interesting train of thought triggered by No Music Day.

see? it's brilliant!