Take these chains away from me;
Don't want to be a slave to consumerism;
Take these chains that make me buy;
Take them, so i won't die.
So i went to this mobile clubbing event; and there it was, the revenge of the white earbuds. everyone was there with their fancy MP3 players and digital cameras. All that it was about was lost. It was as commercialized as any other party; just had this "feeling" of real parties.
I don't know.
Nothing's real anymore.
Let's play imagine. Let's say that all my aspirations would thrive and that information and software would be free. what cost will the public bare for it? the entire content shall be modified in order to pay for commercials inside it; we would have a free operating system with a big "pepsi" banner. it's unbearable.
We would have only, and only, Britneys, Kyles and Madonnas.
What world would it be?
Actually, that's a lot of bull-poo.
Just because ppl have personal musical systems the event was "commercialized"? U sure u know the meaning of that word?
In fact, being in the inner circles of MC I can tell you that several cellular phone companies wanted to harness the MC to their own good. We naturally refused. MC, unlike most other parties, are free and un-sponsered. They cost nothing. How's that for "commercialized"?
And no, very few people actually carry Ipods to MC. Most have regular MDs, or other MP3s on HD. Ha! some even have those lame flash MP3 sticks.
As for the music: MC tend to bring together quite hetrogenous musical styles. Anything from Tekno to Alt-rock through french house muzak. I guess you just wern't listening.
Well,
that's not the thing.
I really enjoyed it; i'm just in fear that a good thing might turn out for the worse when taken to the exterme. think about this situation:
No person would (ever) smoke weed in this event, which is a crime; however, people will listen to illegal music, which is a crime as well.
The "ipods" are just a metaphore; all the mp3 on stick or whatever, HD, MD, CD players are manufactured by corporations who make money out of it; it's the irony of "we are against g11n and use hp printers to protest against it".
I don't know….
Anyways, I agree it brings people together and that it is quite a nice experience. I will be there the next time they do it as well…
Jonathan.
It seems this isn't about mobile clubbing at all, but about your own conflicts with anti-g11n (that's nice, I only knew l11n and i18n before). "Anything that plays music is manufactured by corporations, therefore it cannot, by definition, be of any use to anti-g11n". What would you expect? Unlike software, hardware and other physical things cannot possibly be free (and I mean free in most senses of the word): they have to be manufactured somewhere in mass quantities and, let's face it, you and me can't make them alone. Apple can, at least as far as iPods are concerned.
So maybe we should attend virtual-mobile-clubbing events where everybody listens to their own pirated music on their free operating system with their open-source media player (personally I'd go with amaroK, but ultimately it's about choice, isn't it?); but then you'd go and say "Wait, but who made all our processors? THE CORPORATION! This is so commercialized!"
It never ends. You have to put a line somewhere, and I think that a zero-cost-unsponsored-independently-organized party is well within the good side of that line.