Now in its fifth and final official year, No Music Day is an internationally celebrated event (the host city this year is Linz, Austria) created by Scottish writer, artist and KLF member Bill Drummond. While the official website seems to give no real mission statement regarding why Drummond won't be plugging No Music Day in the future or why he created it back in '05—the manifesto you see at right is more of an awkward, free-verse poem than a mission statement, and I'm wondering if it sounds slightly less labored in German—Wikipedia sheds some light on what the day is all about:
No Music Day is an event introduced by Bill Drummond to draw attention to the cheapening of music as an artform due to its mindless and ubiquitous use in contemporary society. Drummond explained "I decided I needed a day I could set aside to listen to no music whatsoever, [...] Instead, I would be thinking about what I wanted and what I didn't want from music. Not to blindly — or should that be deafly — consume what was on offer. A day where I could develop ideas."
