More Thoughts on NO MUSIC Day
Nov. 20th, 2006 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzy_daveAnother thought came to me rather perversely. I might do a NO MUSIC playlist full of sounds that are not music. I suppose what Bill Drummond is getting at is the plethora of music around the world that is instantly available at a mouse click away,and that somehow music has become devalued. However, he is actually talking about music with hummable tunes or melodies. No wonder he feels jaded. There is also alot of mainstream shite out there. He should think outside the box a bit more.
No music day itself,in my humble opinion,will exclude all natural sounds and documentary work that contains no music. So how about some of those old Smithsoninan albums such as the "Sounds of North American Frogs" CD i have or Chris Watson's field recordings. What about bird songs and those two wonderful LPs of British Bird Songs on BBC Records? Also where we do we put sound poetry in all this?
In other words, how we define music is subject to our own perceptions of music,noise and ambient.In the case of Drummond's thesis music has tunes that are hummable. So in that sense, a playlist on Non-musical music is not so perverse.
No music day itself,in my humble opinion,will exclude all natural sounds and documentary work that contains no music. So how about some of those old Smithsoninan albums such as the "Sounds of North American Frogs" CD i have or Chris Watson's field recordings. What about bird songs and those two wonderful LPs of British Bird Songs on BBC Records? Also where we do we put sound poetry in all this?
In other words, how we define music is subject to our own perceptions of music,noise and ambient.In the case of Drummond's thesis music has tunes that are hummable. So in that sense, a playlist on Non-musical music is not so perverse.
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