[snip]I think there should be a notice board on the DRIFT site so you can comment on the work. But...maybe I missed it.
I think it to say events and occurrences speak for themselves is the usual way for the artist to absolve themselves of responsibility for their work.
this only serves to reinforce the passive, apolitical and indeed disturbingly voyeuristic nature of this type of sound art.
A question I often ask myself is ; is this type of work simply a NEW form of audio tourism? since blaise cenders and the futurists already drove this 'city as narrative' stake into the black heart of ART eighty years ago.
Just interested, Robert - who do you believe owns the soundscape?
Pete
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