i've been thinking about this and for me it's the classic walkman and old copied tape combination because you can take music with you to amazing places, when you get that corresspondence between what you are listening to and the space that you're in which takes the two and creates some powerful feeling in your soul. i was spending a week in a village on an island in a lake in siberia while studying in russia and had a c90 - one side of satie piano pieces and the other with early finnish idm - absolutely amazing combination :) tho this thought made me think of another time when the space that I was in seemed to change because of the music - seeing DJ Rush for the first time at the Scala - I'd never heard anything like it before and for a moment in the middle of it all the sounds seemed to echo around and there was a klanging sort of noise just like on a building site and I suddenly realised that techno is everywhere in the city with the klanging of people and life making this random techno noise - the complete opposite of the total calm back on that island.
anyway maybe I've been reading too much proust, but there's definitley an interesting power to be found within music and spaces. . [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
