Bill Drummond – a discussion about our relation with music…
Posted by flore | Posted in Other Artists - good music!! | Posted on 25-08-2009
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Thanks to BassMusicBlog.com for this very interesting topic….
You know who Bill Drummond is, don’t you. Manager of Echo and The Bunnymen, one half of The KLF, artist, prankster, author. His book ‘45′ is a fantastic read and comes highly recommended.
Anyway, over at the KLF Online they’ve just drawn our attention to this podcast, in which he discusses the history of recorded music (part 19), and how it changed our whole relationship with music, repeatedly, and is currently doing so again. I’ll try not to spoil it too much, but the basic thrust is that once upon a time, if you wanted to hear a certain type of music you had to be in a certain place at a certain time (ie a concert hall or church). Now you can pretty much store the entirety of musical history on an iPod and listen to African drummers on the bus or 150-piece orchestras while you’re taking a dump. It’s pretty mad when you think of it like that. Bill argues that this essentially makes recorded music meaningless and is quite convincing with it, although he usually convinces me, whatever it is he’s trying to argue.
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