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Audience participation in music
Einsturzende Neubauten had a subscription program through their web site through which subscribers could watch and listen to the band’s studio sessions and then leave comments in a forum. So essentially they were letting their fans have a say in the album before it was completed. This wouldn’t work for a lot of bands, but it makes sense for Neabauten. Pigface should do this as well. Some things Pigface have done: let audience members call up and leave messages on the office answering machine for use in an album (Feels Like Heaven, Smells Like Shit) and more recently let fans send in tapes and CD-Rs of them saying “fuck [something]” to be collaged on a Pigface record (not sure if that stuff ever got used).
Writing Game
This message is for Brenden Simpson – I don’t have access to ICQ right now, and I’m never sure what your e-mail address is. But, anyone interested is welcome to reply. While I’m waiting for the perfect Live Journal narrative idea and video graffiti idea to strike me, how about: We write an outline, with say 10 landmarks (more might be necessary). We setup a content managment system.
Live Journal as an interactive narrative tool
Thoughts on the Live Journal interactive narrative idea: I don’t want to do “the story game” (where each person writes a piece of the story). I don’t want to do a simple novel serialization like Class of 91 or a “writing in public” exercise like Listener by Ellis or Unwirer by Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross. But, I wouldn’t rule out the idea of doing a project using Movable Type, a wiki, or some other collaboration ware.
Notes on the Spectacle and the Panopticon
Just to collect some of my notes and materials in one place: Current thesis: While the authorities are installing surveillance systems as mechanisms of control, rather than protection, the effects may have the opposite effect. “Surveillance society” may lead to a form of liberation. surveillance camera players – camera phone predictions Bowling Alone Douglas Rushkoff: The myth of the conservative point of view is that we have somehow lost a sense of family values in this country.