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Friday, June 23, 2006
Sky Orchestra?!
This lunchtime's national news had an amusing story to finish off with : in Warwickshire some pretentious artsy type early this morning pulled off a truly huge piece of visual art by flying a number of balloons over Stratford-upon-Avon that broadcast music down to the town below.
The idea of this stunt was allegedly to survey the residents of the houses that they passed over to see if the music (inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream) had any impact on the imagery of those people's dreams as they woke up to go to work etc. But, frankly, with the ropey nature of the way the experiment was conducted and in the manner in which data will later be gathered, the whole event seems a lot less like a practical experiment into the effects of music on dream sequence than it was an excuse for the composer, Dan Jones, to get on television and promote his own work!!
In an interview with the BBC, Jones had this to say :
The idea of this stunt was allegedly to survey the residents of the houses that they passed over to see if the music (inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream) had any impact on the imagery of those people's dreams as they woke up to go to work etc. But, frankly, with the ropey nature of the way the experiment was conducted and in the manner in which data will later be gathered, the whole event seems a lot less like a practical experiment into the effects of music on dream sequence than it was an excuse for the composer, Dan Jones, to get on television and promote his own work!!
In an interview with the BBC, Jones had this to say :
"This is music released from the confines of gravity."
What precisely that is supposed to mean I'm not sure!! What a load of nonsense!!!
