°° "A kind of event". This obviously covers a lot of ground.
- Soundtrack. Someone puts on Fridge's album EPH as we're climbing Mount Vesuvius in a car on new year's eve, December 1999. I can't listen to that album without getting Vesuvius goosepimples. Or... I have to cycle across town, it's going to take at least an hour both ways. There's a certain choice of music to make, it needs to work well on headphones, it needs to inspire forward movement and above all it needs to somehow "sync" with the city I'll be passing through.
- Aftertaste. You spend an afternoon being shouted at by someone who means a lot to you. You walk into a cafe and it's the music playing on the radio which saves you. Any other day you wouldn't even have noticed it.
- Information. Does it make a difference to how you hear music if you know who, how, when and with what it was made? I think it does. It's not always a good thing but the difference fascinates me. Hearing Varese with no background info might not be that surprising these days, but if you know it's the first ever stereo recording, and you imagine what it must have been like to be in the concert hall when the orchestra put their instruments down and the music just carried on...
Projection...
The list is endless. And for each little section there are a billion little ideas that personally I'd like to try out. I also like the idea that however it'll be interpreted it's never going to be something you'd expect. The surprise of that is what I hope you'll be looking forward to above all.