MP/05

A roundup of a few things that are inspiring me at the moment:

http://www.rense.com/general7/whyy.htm

Every single piece in Candy Chang’s portfolio.

What’s been changing?

• The local cd store closed. It’s actually harder for me to go buy a real CD than it is to download the bits i like.

• The death of the album. Rise of the compolation/remix

• Role of a brand is now to facilitate communication/sharing knowledge between peoples rather than to deliver a brand experience.

• The stage is really big. Even bedroom music is public art.

• Avant garde-ist user control of the public arena dominated by commercial messages

• Subversion of commercial messages… Complication of  commercial messages..

• Designers should facilitate user activity that creates community.

> EG Candy Chang’s Project Moustache.

• Music is especially good at articulating what a general audience is really thinking/feeling.It says the unspoken, or the un-say-able….

  > Free from the bound of personal judgement, it’s externalised to The Thing - the work, the song, etc.

  > Using design, say what we really think about some things. Be constructive. Facilitate the discussion and the debate.