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Følgende er sakset fra den engelske musikk-skribenten Norman Lebrecht:
Silence, please
Saint Cecilias Day will never sound the same again. A year ago, Bill Drummond, the eccentric KLF pop musician, decided that what the world needed more than anything was 24 hours without music. And when better to declare No Music Day than November 21, eve of the arts patron saint day?
Without much fanfare, Drummond flung up a website, www.nomusicday.com. It drew so many responses that the London radio station Resonance FM has now agreed to play no music this year on November 21 and the Unsound Festival in Cracow, Poland, is planning to open in silence.
Whats the big idea? Drummond says his ears got jaded and needed a break. Maybe my perceived impasse is something singular to me, he says, but if the idea of No Music Day resonates with you, make use of it.
Well he can count me in on the classical side of things, where the summits of western civilisation have been converted into ineluctable slush by 24/7 radio, advertising jungles, in-store ooze-music, mobile ring tones and please-hold snooze tracks from public utilities. Getting away from the sound of music is harder than shielding your email from penis enhancers. Anything that makes us stop treating the art as wallpaper and value it as Gods gift can only be to the glory of Cecilia and humanitys gain.
And I can add a dash of personal evidence that tuning out really works. I have just emerged from a month of mourning during which, in Jewish tradition, music is prohibited. Yesterday, I slipped a disc into the deck not with my usual critical detachment but with the trepidation of a teenager dressing for a date. The sound hit me like iced water after a desert trek. Every note was a bejewelled drop, every phrase a restorer of life. In music, abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. Do your ears a favour and switch off for the day on November 21.
Silence, please
Saint Cecilias Day will never sound the same again. A year ago, Bill Drummond, the eccentric KLF pop musician, decided that what the world needed more than anything was 24 hours without music. And when better to declare No Music Day than November 21, eve of the arts patron saint day?
Without much fanfare, Drummond flung up a website, www.nomusicday.com. It drew so many responses that the London radio station Resonance FM has now agreed to play no music this year on November 21 and the Unsound Festival in Cracow, Poland, is planning to open in silence.
Whats the big idea? Drummond says his ears got jaded and needed a break. Maybe my perceived impasse is something singular to me, he says, but if the idea of No Music Day resonates with you, make use of it.
Well he can count me in on the classical side of things, where the summits of western civilisation have been converted into ineluctable slush by 24/7 radio, advertising jungles, in-store ooze-music, mobile ring tones and please-hold snooze tracks from public utilities. Getting away from the sound of music is harder than shielding your email from penis enhancers. Anything that makes us stop treating the art as wallpaper and value it as Gods gift can only be to the glory of Cecilia and humanitys gain.
And I can add a dash of personal evidence that tuning out really works. I have just emerged from a month of mourning during which, in Jewish tradition, music is prohibited. Yesterday, I slipped a disc into the deck not with my usual critical detachment but with the trepidation of a teenager dressing for a date. The sound hit me like iced water after a desert trek. Every note was a bejewelled drop, every phrase a restorer of life. In music, abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. Do your ears a favour and switch off for the day on November 21.
