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A Day Without Music
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Did you know today is “No Music Day”? Thousands of people have pledged on this website to turn off all music, and BBC Radio Scotland will play no music today. The annual 24-hour event was the idea of former British rock star and conceptual artist Bill Drummond.
Drummond was in the early ’90s band KLF, which stopped playing at the peak of its success, deleted its entire back catalog and burned its last £1 million (now more than $2 million) in earnings. Visual artists may recall the band’s K Foundation, which in 1994 awarded a prize to Britain’s worst artist of the year, who also happened to be that year’s winner of the prestigious Turner Prize.
The idea behind No Music Day is that our ears are assaulted by elevator music, ring tones, advertising jingles and other types of music to the point that it has become little more than white noise. As Drummond says in this story, he began to wonder what life would be like without music.
Would you like to have a day without music? What kind of music bothers you the most?
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