Tom Sutcliffe - Art that hits all the right notes
I enjoyed all the pieces in Tom Sutcliffe's column this week, but my favourite is the discussion of a notice in David Byrne's installation 'Playing the Building' at the Roundhouse in London (until the 31st August). He discusses the ambiguity and possible interpretations of the notice which asks visitors to 'please play'. Just the kind of thing you want to read when you're working on a book on pragmatics.
The other pieces are on diagetic and non-diagetic sound in (Ferris Bueller's Day Off and other) movies, and on that feeling you get that makes you wish everyone could just stop writing for a while so you don't feel so much like the sorcerer's apprentice rushing to catch up.
Billy
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