Art

Well, it did take me an unusually long time, but the new 1 Hour of Music in 20 Minutes - Art is up now on Dig.

I went to see the Guggenheim exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria recently and read a great quote by German artist Thomas Demand in the catalogue. He said "things enter reality through photography... Tourists don't know they've seen the sights until they can match their experience to the picture postcard"

I wondered if music can work the same, like we know it's time for the slow dance, time to be romantic when the DJ plays Careless Whisper at the school social. Do we use music to create, define, and even supplant our memories? Thinking of the roles performed by music chosen for weddings, funerals, dinner parties, children's birthdays. I imagine it's unlikely someone will choose to walk down the aisle to Peaches' I Don't Give a Fuck (though, I would find that pretty funny)

Anyway, that's not really what the program ended up being, but it went through lots of research and writing before I was ready to put it out there. I bought lots of new records and had to really give them proper 'listens' before I worked out what I was really 'saying' :)

What 1in20 - Art is, in the end, I hope, is an enquiry into the role of art in inspiring musicians, the ways art and art institutions help to form musical groups, what "art rock" is and what it sounds like, what a musician who is really an artist seems to be doing with their music and whether or not this complex, ambitious music is palatable to people.

Have a listen... i hope you like it. Hopefully it won't be nearly so long between this one and the next one!

Track listing: [track title / artist / album]

hieronymous / the clouds / penny century
gatherings / trio typology / sight specific music
wuthering heights / kate bush / the kick inside
boy child / scott walker / boy child: 67-70
common people / pulp / different class
take me out / franz ferdinand / franz ferdinand
virginia plain / roxy music / roxy music
television man / talking heads / little creatures
freedom of choice / devo / freedom of choice
map ref. 41 n 93 w / wire / 154
i got you / split enz / true colours
o superman / laurie anderson / big science
far out / blur / parklife
ashes to ashes / david bowie / scary monsters (and super creeps)
keep the car running / arcade fire / neon bible
concrete paving, magpie raving / joseph goodman / time capsule (released by the university of melbourne)

yours in music,

~ hermione