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Speculativism


Also known as Peter-David Smith, Cyborg Jazz and Various Female Artists. Imagine sound art as a landscape. Music is one location in that landscape. Speculativism explores the neighbouring locations on that landscape, next to music, around music, near or far in relation to music. All the tracks are an art which has some relation to music but not necessarily conforming to any of the rules usually imposed upon music. Here you will find noise, comedy, Dada, experimentation and satire. Speculativism is Peter-David Smith, a UK-based artist. In the 1960s he went to a rotten, cheap nasty comprehensive school where they didn't allow the kids to touch musical instruments (in order to prevent breakage) and where they didn't teach music (in order to prevent kids from forming rock and roll bands) - thus creating a situation where Peter-David was forced to the path of autodidacticism and a strange relationship with music, soundart and noise. BIOG: I went to a really rotten school which would not allow us to touch musical instruments in case we broke them. This was in the 1960s and the teacher was paranoid about artists like The Who and Jimi Hendrix smashing their instruments on stage. She thought we were all vandals and morons. Consequently I grew up without the opportunity to find out whether I had any aptitude for music or not. After a while I began making noises with found objects, then with a guitar, plastic recorder and drumsticks. Eventually I began using computer effects. This...

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