I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Music takes up too little space these days

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Buying a second hand vinyl player and a lot of LPs

Will
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I forgot my ipod.

Richard
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Its an experiment. Why not.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: While getting ready for work I had Fosters Home Imaginary Friends on sans sound. Prooved to be as funny if not even more weird. Once at work I switched off the CD players to see how long it took people to realize they were off. Surprisingly; quite a while. This is all making me question whats defined as music vs. what "silence", and the sounds inside of, it are capable of replacing.

Christopher
21/11/2005

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: listening to things I dont consider music, such as a drill, a power sander, westlife, 50-cent and the screams inside my head.

James watson
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I hate music (all) AND I will be watching this internal door dry that I painted early this moring.

Martin
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I have frequently sinned in the name of it.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Switching off all electricity, gaffa taping the windows and locking the doors.

Simon Fellowes
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I am self-employed.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Playing through Richard Strauss's opera Ariadne auf Naxos on the piano, whilst yelping like a seagull.

Bines
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I was told me to do it.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: giving away any CDs in my collection that have gathered dust.

Scoop
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I am in the grip of Mammon

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Working hard for a living in an enviroment that does not permit music to be listended to during the long working hours

James Marshall
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I've never seen Discordance Axis on television. Ever.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Watching MTV and other, generally trite and insidious, 'music' channels which have litte/nothing to do with aural expression and function only to sedate the mind.

Lex Luthor
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I like the challenge of avoiding the ubiquitous everyday musical pap. I am paticularly keen to get through a whole day without hearing Coldpaly.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Avoiding all spaces where I might hear music, not playing CDs and turning the sound off on my PC. The radio will be on Radio 4 and I won't be watching the television apart from University Challenge (I plan to skip the music round).

reg tubby
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I heard the new Black Eyed Peas song and it made me want to weep with sadness as to how low we have sunk in the wonderful, hallowed name of music.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Making my own soundtrack in my head.

Janey
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: i am worried

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: super-glueing birds beaks together

simon
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: i wonder if rhythm counts as music?

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: considering the almost intangible. have we ever experienced true silence?

dan lo.fi
21/11/2005

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Playing music all day by whatever means neccesary.

Sectioned
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: music killed my parents

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: slicing off my ears

Hermungle
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: We take music for granted and you don't know what you love until its gone

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Sitting in a wood

James Lambert
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I'm a sucker for just doing things on a whim. I have to say that I can type rhymically though so thank goodness nobody's going to start calling drummers musicians. Or was that DJs, I get so confused?

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Well, I will from now on. I listened to a sampler from the DiN label earlier on but can probably still count myself as in full observance. Or should that be observence? Have we a working definition of music yet, so I can be sure? I mean, I have to admit that there are times when the almost imperceptible sound of nylon panties being slowly drawn down over long legs is the greatest music I've ever heard. And, for a long time, I had major doubts about Stravinsky, which would make me, presumably, very ignorant.

I have one of these
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: It does not yet cost. It does not yet profit. It does not yet fail.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: At 5:45am I sat quitely in a Public Park - as this is the nearest to No Music I am likely to get. Still noisy.
Now everything I am obliged to hear seems loud. Nothing but loudness is not music.

martin
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Music serves only to highlight emotional states. Whether its lyrics are boasting about someone having a better life than yourself or some evil shit coming up with a pop hook so life affirming it makes my whole situation seem that much bleaker. It's a powerful force that needs to be halted occasionally.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: rueing the fact that I forgot about it and spending the day listening to drivel. I observe it mentally and in spirit, but sadly Winamp's running...

Tom Cole
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I want music to be free.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Thinking about how music is written and produced.

Jonathan
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Music cant be free

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Only listening to music I dont like

Richard
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: who says i cant listen to music!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Listening to every song that i can in 24 hrs.

Lisa
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: i quite fancied a change

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: i'm having a grreat day the sound of the mersey, boats nice bit of fog with added fog horn noises.. the whirrrrr of the docks.... seaguls etc

bong
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I am tried of the bland corporate music behemoth pumping out sounds to fill people ears to stop their lives feeling empty

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Going to see Mahler's 7th Symphony performed by the Philarmonia Orchestra.
Sorry. If I'd had a bit of notice I'd have avoided it totally, but trying my best. My music at home is now off and I am surrounded by the incesent hum of computer fans.

Bob Dobbs
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: the broad spectrum of art (over time) will pretty-much reflects life; its changes, its advances, its positive and negative effects. By observing NO MUSIC DAY I will temporarily slow life's inexorable creep towards blandness and inanity. Art=life=news. Neil Postman was right.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: not whistling Jeff Buckley tunes to my work collegues

Bob Farrell
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: i could do with a day off

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: by not turning on the stereo

21/11/2005

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: trying my bestest in the whole wide world not to whistle is the shower!

Andrew Whittaker
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Everyone and his dog listens to their own little selection that is loaded on their iPod and played back at random, avoiding talking to others, avoiding listening to music with others, and letting their tastes be dulled by the repetition of the same 4-6GB. What happened to listening to an album all the way through? Music should be more than background noise while you commute. iPods reduce everything to elevator muzak. Besides, most new music is crap anyway.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Leaving my headphones out and listening to hundreds of programmers playing a random rhythym on their keyboards.

Jonathan Wakely
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Music isn't a background. And when it is used as one, the music simply isn't good enough.
And Bert and Ernie are funny. Especially in a department store.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Refusing to play Il Divo, Katie Melua, Norah Jones and any other "coffee-table-background-music" in the department store (cd-department) where I work, and I will be trying to play Bert & Ernie instead. (I hope I still work there tomorrow though)

sjoerd
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: IT IS NOW 21st of NOVEMBER TURN IT OFF

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: IT IS NOW 21st of NOVEMBER TURN IT OFF

Christopher
21/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: it got me thinking.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: continuing the long, life-interrupting task of ripping my cd collection to hard-drive - for the second time.
in doing so my love for each cd is tested to the limits - is it really necessary for this in my life?
mostly it's been no, but in delving through the depths of your life/mind/collection you find pearls you may have overlooked.
and one pearl is worth a lot of shit these days.

simon
20/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Silence is a Virtue in this busy dying world.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Refusing to listen to any rhythmic sounds. If they persist earplugs will be enforced.

Raoul Gaston
20/11/2005

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: No special actions, non-actions or means. Each month I have, on average, three days that are very silent. No music or radio, perhaps news on tv in the evening, but otherwise those days I avoid all broadcast, films, internet, shopping and events.
Good for your mind, hearing and sensibility in general.
Thanks for the initiative, 'What do you want from music?' is a very important question. Keep it alive.

Zingzing Gecko
20/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I went past the 'No Music Day' billboard more times then i care to remember in the last few weeks.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Updating my iPod just after midnight, listening to said iPod on the way to & from work. In doing so driving past the 'No Music Day' billboard and being amused by the irony.
Then later in the evening going to a gig @ the Barfly, as part of "Liverpool Music Week" ...again, amsused by the irony!

Chris
20/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I haven't read a decent book lately.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Telling my neighbour that if he plays Jerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" three times in a row at full volume in the middle of the afternoon while I'm trying to work again I will break into his flat while he's at work and smash every piece of sound reproduction equipment he owns into at least 17 pieces.

jam sarney
20/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I keep going back to the same artists to re-create the past enjoyment I've had listening to them. I need to keep this language special by not taking it for granted. This new holiday falls in the week of our American holiday of Thanksgiving. I celebrate Thanksgiving by staying at home, enjoying quiet time with my wife and not running errands or other bullshit. I find it highly appropriate to utilize No Music Day as a way to STOP, appreciate and give thanks for the role music plays in my life.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Leaving the car cd changer off, not playing any records, leaving my discman at home, not playing the guitar to kill time as my internet pages load and not playing with any of my musicallly-oriented children's toys.

Rudi Thornburgh
20/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: It is essential that we evoke the lost spirit of invention that is currently untraceable in the music makers of the early 21st century

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Listening to the vibrant throb of the urban soundscape

Daniel O'Sullivan
20/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: i would like to listen to the ambience of everyday life

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: avoiding tv and my music collection

patrick
19/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: isn't it ironic (or isn't it deliberate)? Nov 22nd is St. Cecilia's Day - the day of all days for music, from the frivolous to the sublime. Music is the highest and most significant of mankind's intellectual contributions (and I am, seriously, ranking it above all technological issues) - it reaches in at a more profound level than the written or spoken word, it can reach across ages and cultures, it needs no understanding to be appreciated yet infinitely repays close study.
In order to value music, form and answer questions. - If you don't agree with visuals (MTV, VHS, shows?, concerts?), don't watch - it doesn't matter - writing as someone who does not own a TV and has not watched ANY broadcast TV in 6 years, except accidentally (my choice, no sermon intended)
- If you're looking for music to express something new, where are you looking? And are you waiting for someone to say 'this is new'? Have you listened to 1500 years worth of music and found nothing to stimulate? - Is music the same as 'intended sounds', and does the new consequently mean new sound worlds, or just new arrangements of chords on a guitar?
Music matters (to me) - I listen to it, think about it, talk about it, read and write about it, perform and compose it - what more infinite variation could anybody want?
Please note - I am being serious, I am not aiming to be pretentious, I am trying to summarize my thoughts simply on what is, for me, immensely complex.
As in all things, don't be content with being a sheep, a reactionary, a flag-waver, a pall-bearer - be an individual.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: (possibly) listening to no music OR (probably) making positive choices about what I hear - no passive music in the background, no switching the radio on and just listening, no music while I work, only music that I must hear (as my non-negotiable job requires for approx. 5 minutes of my day), only music that matters (Bach, Berio, Britten, Bartok - no apologies for 'art music' - you get the picture).

JAW
19/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I'm slowly becoming addicted to the Itunes music store. All those lovely West Coast alternative bands. Yummy.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Listening to the tinnitus that music gave me in the first place - cheers, music! I owe you a beer! I shall also attempt to think without cracking up.

Retrotwat
19/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: My ears and mind are in pain.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Leaving my mini disc at home and enjoying the sound of the traffic on my way to work.

David Hancock
19/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I need a day without manipulated emotions, without the beat and the croon, and no chance of rocking down and getting back up. I'm gonna stay still, keep it low, and firm up my expectations, my conceptions of what music does for me.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Leaving my iPod at home, turning the stereo off, unplugging my speakers, avoiding stores, silencing my cell, not turning on the TV, maybe taking a long solitary walk.

Lina
19/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: there is no thought behind my action

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: i am going to take the day off, do some decorating and make a spaceship for a pa on friday

Jon Doe
19/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Silence is Golden.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Doing something else.

Moodi
19/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: My partner is due to give birth, and the clutch has broke on the car. Subsequently, I have to borrow someone's car, and it has no stereo.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: having nothing to do with music.

christopher lloyd
19/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: you physically can't cut music out of your life

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: not observing it

pat
19/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: i am not observing anything different because this whole entire site is a bunch of wank

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: listening to music like i normally do, not letting some bullshit site some loser who thinks they can change the world think he can change my daily routine.

Ray
19/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: music interferes with the soul

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Not listening to any music as usual

Jennifer Elliott
19/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: It's a crazy messed up idea that only you could think off and perhaps it may inspire you to get off your arse and make some more nice tunes for we, the people!

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: listening to DISCHARGE all day to make me feel REAL!!

forkboy
19/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: it is not a nihilistic gesture. It is not a nostalgic longing. It is time to rethink..

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Listening to my children (chatting shouting, screaching etc)

George
19/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I find it easiest to think what I want from music by sitting in a concert and not listening. Hearing perhaps, but not listening. I end up writing music in this situation, which is I guess motivated partly by me trying to say what I want from music, rather than listening to what is going on around me. So whilst it's unfortunate that I have to go to two concerts on Monday, I will attempt not to listen and participate, thinking instead about what I want from music.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: going to two concerts.

James Saunders
18/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: ITS A DUMB AZZ IDEA AND AND ITS A WYND UP I THOUGHT I POST THIS, TWATS

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: LSTENING TO MUSIC, PLAYING MY GUITAR AT DEAFENING SOUND AS ALWAYS AND THEN GONIG TO BED LISTENING TO MY IPOD

Excuse me??
18/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: no reason

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: listening to John Cage's 4'33''

Dirk Markham
18/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: it's a good idea, I guess, although it'd be even cooler to have a No Noise At All day, or at the very least an Everyone Please Stop Talking day. If the point of the exercise is to figure out what you want from music, why not take a week to think about it?
also, "figure out what you want?"

that's like telling music to sit in its room and think about what it's done, and not come out until it says it's sorry. but that's cool too.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: not listening to music, provided I remember which day I'm supposed to do this on.

Leah
18/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: The slate needs to be wiped clean. A day without the structured sound of m***c may be exactly what I need to clear my head. Funnily enough, my brain has been edging to this conclusion and I'm glad that someone has said it out loud...

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Not listening to music. I'm not even going to work that day so no pumped out crappy radio will be thrust upon me. I will not go into record shops for fear of hearing. I will read. I will write. I may watch some Tv (carefully selected of cause).

Alex Riding
18/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I have over 500 CDs and an obsession with 6 Music on the Freeview box. Drying out for a day will be good for me.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Cranking up the volume on my vintage Tannoy speakers, with the 'Select Source' button on the amp turned to the channel where my dead, dearly departed Technics SL1210 resided.

Dan Thompson
18/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: there is no point in chart music and perhaps the brats will realise how rubbish it is when they hear it constantly

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: playing chart records at full volume.

Rhea
18/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: It is a good idea.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: working in a record shop and ignoring the music i am forced to listen to all day.
I will also be ignoring all the people who come in and ask for my opinion about music.

James Drummond
18/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Every computer needs rebooting once in a while.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Telling as many other people as I can about it and the obvious, avoiding music on that day. Wich will be difficult as that means no cartoons.

Christopher
18/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I want to.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: ...observing every instance of music in the environment which I encounter by chance, and without my permission.

I am going to make a list of the tunes I am exposed to, and if I hear enough, will use those songs to make a CD with. If I hear more than can fit onto a CD, I will put the names of the tunes into a hat and pull out the number which will fit onto a CD.

Ali Knapp
18/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: my auditory senses will be improved by doing so.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: sitting in a deep cave in the dark with only the sound of dripping water.

scott
18/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Its a liberation

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Not hearing Musik

Ralph thee Conqueror
18/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: just surfing

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: i don't know. what are the reasons?

kreftwark
17/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: My bank balance needs a rest.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Not buying any records.

Chris H.
17/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: my soul aches for more than I am hearing, I exist on mere scraps that titlate me for a few days and then bore me.I sincerely doubt that there is an artist (except myself of course)around the corner ready to aurally challenge the world and take us on a ride to rival those before....Even when something new emerges, it is usually trying so desperately to be new,that I stifle a yawn. All the 'in' references and influences reek of desperation. BIN IT ALL - INSTRUMENTS AND ALL, AND LETS START AGAIN....

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: putting my fingers in my ears for the same amount of time i would spend listening to music on any given day. Any sound, or the absence of sound and any observed feelings will be recorded by writing them on a blank cd disc, stored with other cd's, and added to every 21st November.

stuart
17/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I will be getting fucked by a record

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: fucking myself with a record

liza thorn
17/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Every day is No Music Day in my world because I think about music and what I want from it every day.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Ideally - by sitting in an anechoic chamber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber and listening to the whine of my nerves and the thrum of my circulation.

In reality I will forget that it's No Music Day and listen to music.

Bunny Rabbit
17/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I have 363 days when I can enjoy music it might be good to see what a day without music sounds like.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Hiding the radio at work so I don't have to listen to Radio 1, actually I might accidentally lose the radio for the same reason. I might goto one of those bars which puports to stimulate conversation by not having music.

Jason Byers
17/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: i have nothing better to do.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: playing loads of music but switching my ears off.

weldo
17/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I want to reflect on the sound of no mu(sic)

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Listening to Westlife. That's not music.

mark
17/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I can.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: turning the car stereo off, leaving my iPod at home, muting the speakers of my PC and switching off the TV.

Thomas Touzimsky
17/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: we have to start at zero after this day

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: turn on the silence

Michael
17/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Having just about every song you could possibly have the urge to listen to readily accessible to you - on the bus, at home, in the park, on a plane, whilst having a shit - is just far, far, far too easy. Where's the anticipation? Where's the waiting? Shut up, sit still and leave your accessories alone! YOU HAVE NO MESSAGES!!

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Purchasing, or preferably borrowing, an ipod. Or perhaps making one out of an old cardboard box and some felt tip pens (I've got a silver one). The ipod will have no music on it, and I will take it with me, with headphones attached, and listen to silence all day. (Hang on ... is silence music? Isn't all sound music?).

Ray
17/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I like the idea.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: asking not what music can do for me, but what I can do for music.

Alex
17/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: i was told to.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: either a) putting myself in an insulin induced coma for 24 hours.



b)using a machine to convert the notes of the music i own to there corresponding letters and watching my favourite songs all day.

Peter Maskell
16/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: The world needs a rest from sound pollution.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: By putting a blank CD in the rack, cranking up the stereo and listening to the hum.

Leprous Behemoth
16/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I basicly feel that music doesn't "do" it for me as it used to before, more rare than earlier anyway.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: not listening to music and wearing earplugs when it is possible.

David Lindgren
15/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I shall do this in remembrance of the days when the music industry dared venture down new paths, rather than force feed us an endless regurgitation of the same crud.
I shall use my 24 hours of abstinence to think back to a time when it was exciting to turn on the radio or walk into a record shop.
Knowing that the revolution will not come by itself I shall also spend No Music Day praying that a large meteor will crash into the Earth and eradicate the powers that be, thus forcing a new beginning upon us.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: listening to nothing but the sound of my own breath.

Jan Lund Thomsen
15/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I've just been listening to people in my office say how good Madonna's new stuff is and how much they like it.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: using the flickering of my monitor to induce an impenetrable trance (maybe someone will turn it off for me at the end of the day).

Leila
15/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Re: Re-cycle. Re-use. Re-gurgitate. There are no new ideas.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Taking an axe to the radio in the studio.

Jon
15/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: once every so often, everyone needs a break from music. I believe, after an utter break, my appreciation of music will increase...

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: keeping my records on the shelf, and switching the PC off.

Jon Ace
15/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Well, because Brother Todd sent me this link, and I love the Brother. And also because I love music.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Dude, I'm totally going to listen to music. I don't care what you say.

Stephen Mejias
15/11/2005

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: sleeping all a sunday long...because i can't do it on purpose...

RIVIERE
15/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: as I hope to discover something I didn't know before about music and what it means to me. I suspect it will be a challenging day indeed.
I'm also doing it because I think it's a fresh action to take as I spin my wheels over the same beloved terrain. I'll give it a go (or a stop) and maybe new terrain will reveal itself.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by:

- Removing all recordings from my bedroom

- No radio during transit

- No MP3s while at work

- No tinkering with audio software

- Letting everyone around me know it's NO MUSIC DAY and that it may be in the best interest of music and ourselves to not listen for a day.

Todd Steponick
15/11/2005

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Oui, zis ting, zi no musique day. It iz formidable, yes? Mais, ça sonne comme du plaisir! C'est fantastique! It iz like wiping your ears wit silk. I love it.

The Merovingian
14/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: no one likes it anyways

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: getting down to own drum. the drum of the tears in my eyes, as i cries, all over your lies, emotions airborne like flies, spare me your goodbyes.

chatty cathy
14/11/2005

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: by not listening to any music well for a start I wont be trying to come up with some smart arsed reason for taking part in No Music Day. As far as I am concerned its not a fucking joke, its just a good idea that I want to be part of and I hope all these sods with their clever reason for taking part in it, dont put off other people like me from putting there names down. I've got a job to do, I can't piss off and climb mountains. I just want a break from all the shit music that is every where.

Carol Jones
14/11/2005

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Listening to even more music than usual. I know how I want music to be different, as I fool around a little with it, and I can create how I want things different than the standard.
Good luck to you all, by the way, how are you going to disconnect your brains, because sometimes, in total silence, my mind plays music, and I bet yours will too. Pencils ready, ok, poke out your eardrums!!!

Rev Bucky
14/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I'm bored and i need things like this to add a little spice to my life.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: not listening to any music

nav
14/11/2005

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: its not no music day, shouldnt you close the site or something? anyways i will be listening to music on no music day because hey, who the hell are you?

habby
14/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I am sick of new music days, of bands that release two or three brilliant early releases, and then you trot out in a habit to buy the rest of their back catalogue as and when it appears. I am currently selling all but a tiny amount of my music collection, and will use the cash to get away from vinyl and CD obsession and into the broad uplands of New Life. I do not own an Ipod.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: Listening to Radio 4 all day (signature tunes accepted) and selling records and CDs on the internet that I have owned for years.

John Milne
14/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: Larry told me to.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: There are two claims in Mr Larry Benito Pringle s remarks: (i) that MTV music videos tend not to feature much good music; and (ii) that music should be for the ears. I take the latter to imply the stronger claim that music should be solely for the ears. If this is Mr Pringle s intention, any visual action associated with music is to be considered a distraction. The idea that music should be essentially disembodied suggests that we should always close our eyes and stay still while listening (if we are to listen properly).
I suggest instead that visual actions associated with music whether of the marching band, the stage musical, break-dancing, or the jazz face (in which performers and listeners alike screw up their face in a strange ecstasy) give music much of its context. Music is frequently composed to elicit (or evoke the thought of) certain kinds of action along with the feelings that might accompany them. I don t find this disturbing as a general truth. What is perhaps disturbing to Benito is that the images on MTV are much more evocative than the music. If so, turn the sound off. If both image and sound are not to your liking, turn both off.
A complementary crusade for Mr Pringle would be to remove music from films and TV programs except where the music is part of the action (such as a scene in a night club). This is the flipside of Benito s first point about music videos: namely, that much vacuous film is made compelling to its audience by means of incidental music. Of course, my remarks about music and visual context would equally well apply here too.

Klarence Viermann
13/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: it is there

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: calling music into non excistence for 24hours. there will be no music coming - none, reaching me.
i will spend the day listening to the voice in my head - because i can´t shake that.

simon
12/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: all music I hear sounds like something that I have heard before. I want to hear something fresh and different that makes me feel emmotions that I didn't know I had instead of the emmotions that I have felt a thousand times before.

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: I will be observing No Music Day by spending the day trying to imagine what a music that I had never heard before would sound like.

Bill Drummond
11/11/2005

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: inserting industrial 'pep ear plugs' into the ears of friends & neighbours.

http://www.pep-earplugs.co.uk

tubby stove
11/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: I am observing No Music Day because it is time to reset the balance

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: bagging a couple of Munroes, preferebly with no company but my own

Ralph Macleod
10/11/2005

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: phoning in sick to the HMV where i am supposed to be working that day.

Steve Left
10/11/2005

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: hunting down and killing

U2

coldplay

craig david

daniel bedingfield

david grey

the too long to list deluge of new 20 something female singer songwriters

embrace

oasis

anyone conected with pop idol

madonna

i think that is enough of a hit list (hit list!) for this year. This list is in no particular order and i am sure there are far more needy out there to die but they were the ones that came to me first. Once i have dealt with these i will start to compose a list for next year.

Daryl Jackson
10/11/2005

I am (or am not) observing No Music Day because: saatana mit‰ roskaa!

I will (or will not) be observing No Music Day by: haistakaa vittu kaikki muut paitsi m‰

Rˆllip‰lliˆlˆlˆ1
9/11/2005