I am observing No Music Day because: I was tormented by horrible music at the hairdresser's today, when I read an article in the paper about No Music Day. That must have been a sign...

I will be observing No Music Day by: trying to avoid music as good as I can, which is quite difficult to do, when being outside.

thedayisyours
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: i will just replay biggie's ten crack commandments in my head for the rest of the day

I will be observing No Music Day by: not listening to anymore music today, even though i already did before i found out about this

gtg263r
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: In a modern world where (almost) everything is permitted, we need to be encouraged to deny ourselves things we take for granted. NO MUSIC DAY Seems to me a playful and inspired way to think and appreciate that which we take for granted.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Well, it's dusk already. I spent some of the day sleeping and dreamt bucketloads. I rested up pretty good so got my senses all keened up. So I've been listening to the sounds more and finding the music in them - cars going by, footsteps going up & down the hill, white noise hum of the fridge, Brighton beach tides making their roar up the road, birdsong in the chill. I contacted everyone I knew encouraging them to document their experiences today with or without music, cause I reckon most people don't know it's going on. Am gonna collect the results & put em somewhere like a blog to see what went down.

Gus Ah Um
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: becuase i am drowning in the stuff, the bank plays muzak for heavens sake, kids on public transport playing sub standard mp3's , making the sound of a kitten farting in a tin can into a sound battle, it's hardly like the old analogue reggae soundsystem battles though, they actually had bass.
Enough is enough, piped muzak everywhere. Music on every advert. Films set hundreds of years ago even have an eighties soundtrack. Halifax Building Society using some whack UK hip hop drivel, enough !
Music to urinate too, had enough, I don't listen to music to drown out the voices, yes, it's a mad world, let's not make it madder.

I will be observing No Music Day by: i'm not playing any music

Martin Red
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: 47

I will be observing No Music Day by: 3

bob
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: my mate sent me the link

I will be observing No Music Day by: wasting my time contributing to this website

fhatman
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: This is the lamest idea I've heard.

I will be observing No Music Day by: I won't be. This is rediculous. Muisc is the largest emotive communication tool for our species.
It's the only constant in our existence. The power to soothe, the power to motivate, the power to charm, the power to romance, the power to anger, the power to question.
Music should never ever stop.



What a rediculous idea.



HOW ABOUT A NO WAR DAY.



*softly hums lullabye to child

chris
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: everything counts

I will be observing No Music Day by: leave in silence

daniele
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: Smile...

I will be observing No Music Day by: Imagining all the music that's ever been made by anyone, anywhere, coming to a conclusion and everything and everyone becoming silent for a moment.

Pulse
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I've been disappointed by albums from bands I previously thought to be a certainty to make good albums. I need to think of a new plan for finding music that is not disappointing.

I will be observing No Music Day by: giving my car stereo a day off

Phil
21/11/2006

I will be observing No Music Day by: Cranking up Radio1 - thus avoiding any kind of "music" all day long (sure, commercialised pop drivel, but music no)

Dave Mc Cheeky
21/11/2006

I will be observing No Music Day by: staring into the embers of the fire.

Surfer Joe
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: Because music keeps me sane.



I miss you music

I will be observing No Music Day by: Only listening to my work colleagues tongue popping nervous tick. Which is quite a feat and is achieved my sticking the tongue out and waggling side to side against the mouth pop pop pop pop pop pop

macclad
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: what a load of shite

I will be observing No Music Day by: playing all my boy george albums

andre
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: My Mummy said no scones until I did....the fat slag.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Wearing underpants on my head and dancing with that monkey I've always fancied, but never had the spirit to chase.

Burndog
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: TERRAPIN53

I will be observing No Music Day by: BEING THANKFUL THAT RADIO STATIONS ARE OBSERVING IT I SWITCHED MY CAR RADIO ON AND INSTEAD OF THE USUAL MUSIC THERE WAS OASIS

21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: i love music. And I hope to be able to love it even more by re-calibrating my perception (just like I've found that fasting is a great way of learning to re-appreciate food!). NO MUSIC DAY to me is a phenomenological exploration of my own relations to music and how that is connected to places. More generally, I think it's extremely important to break the "mental equal sign" between "music" and "recordings", because music is inherently performance and as such a subjective action.

I will be observing No Music Day by: actively avoiding music, even situations where it reaches me passively, but still physically remain in places (like my home) where I'm most used to the continous musical stream.

Rasmus Fleischer
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: Because semantics make me feel better. Plus it's better than listening to 99% of the global population

I will be observing No Music Day by: Listening to Merzbow. It's just noise anyway and you can't have music without melody.

Ewok
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: The world of my work attic is blissful without piped tunes - only dogs barking, planes growling, cars burring in the distance, the rattle and clatter of letterboxes and startled birds and a breeze playing through the trees like violins. Who needs iPods? We are surrounded by music if we only care to listen.
Now there's a crescendo of rain and a hint of percussion boiling in the clouds. Who can work with all this going on? No Music Day means better music, music that we arrange...

Adam Horovitz
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: last year I realized that I had music on all the time, that I was not really listening to it, and that it was simply a way of escaping from my life. I was uncomfortable with my thoughts and with silence. After banishing the tv/computer/stereo, and over a week's period had NO music or ONLY the music out of my mind, I have never fully gone back. Music means more now, I listen more. The only time I use it for background now is in the car to keep me awake on late night's driving back from rehearsals. I feel a lot better about music, my brain, and myself.

I will be observing No Music Day by: enjoying the silence. I just heard about this, it's a great idea.

Erik
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I'm bored and want something to do. And it seems to be fun. And of course - I like things that's totally wacko.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Being awake. How am I else supposed to be aware about the backgroundmusic that's played everywere?

Natanael
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: i want to see what it's lke to spend one day in my life (my first ) without music

I will be observing No Music Day by: leaving my ipod at home

Sean Cuthbert
21/11/2006

I will be observing No Music Day by: ah its 7.51 am an ive messed it up already i shouldnt be up this early i'll start again x

stephanie
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I hate all music. I hate all musicians. Chefs annoy me too.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Never, ever listening to music ever again, ever. And stopping anyone else enjoying it by shouting a lot. Turn that racket down. NOW!!!

Imor Bastart
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: it give me a chance to reflect on music's own purpose to my soul.
I have also written a longer piece about this monumental day here: http://james-aukett.livejournal.com/50868.html

I will be observing No Music Day by: meditating in silence and embracing the tranquility and harmonies of the world surrounding myself.

James Aukett
21/11/2006

I will be observing No Music Day by: Listening to my iPod at every given opportunity because this is a silly idea.

Kirsty Baggs
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I live and work on the coal face of music, earning a meagre living - im not complaining - i've been around the world and played in most countries, but week after week, year after year, listening to components, presets, pads, loops, notes, voices and compositions - ears tired... and also the seemingly endless DJ sets - hours and hours of them - requests for a person's aspirations of a good night out - just once a week, the break from the hell of full time employment to pay taxes and only the interest on credit cards and morgages; the system of rabid venture capital that makes an agressive Australian bank the owner of the Thames and drains it dry while back home they are having a 1000 year drought; paid dj monkey's like me pushing buttons for peanuts or the converse when im paid 1000x local wages for 1 hours work because my name is a brand that attracts 10 times the amount of people; even the music on the radio this morning before Bill wen! t on - and after the Radio 4 fills... The no Music Day interview sandwiched by music.

I will be observing No Music Day by: performing this score of abscence and will take my son Atom surf fishing for sea bass... and wait until 12.01 tomorrow to send out press releases, finish the remix, do the flyers for this weekend, make the calls, eat the audiosushi, and generally take a break from all the places there is music - which is almost everywhere... anyway, my eardrums are aching from last night's new track [empty] and the mix [anemic].

Jeffrey Disaster
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I have to rediscover what it is I get from music and pursue it

I will be observing No Music Day by: not listening to music and thinking about what music means to me

david smith
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: WELL IM NOT SO FUCK YOU

I will be observing No Music Day by: LISTENING TO MUSIC

John
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: ...because...um...because...I'm going into the corner to cry now.

I will be observing No Music Day by: ...er... well, actually, I run a shop that sells music.

Fat Roland
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: Most of what's released today by major record companies is worthless, bandwagon-hopping garbage.

I will be observing No Music Day by: Trying to avoid music while working within the music industry.

Pete Murphy>
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: you're all a bunch of miserable fuckers. no music day..............yawn........

I will be observing No Music Day by: listening to music

brianwilson
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: music is my life

I will be observing No Music Day by: thinking about what I want from music

tim
21/11/2006

I will be observing No Music Day by: Today the only music i will hear is the incidential music createc by my environmens, the fish tank, the drone of the PC fans and the clacking of my fingers as i type, Good thinking, Still got echos from the days before rattling round ma head

James Boag
21/11/2006

I am observing No Music Day because: I need a detox. I want to purge myself of all the bland, irrelevant music I've been exposed to throughout my life. I want music to feel vital and sacred again.

I will be observing No Music Day by: not listening to any music or making any music.

Nessa Johnston
21/11/2006

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