IVIV p.34

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> "his head between the speakers"....
>
> More discussion on TRP using an image that REALLY
> comments of the future (after IV): loss of music
> as a group--or public-- experience to an atomised one with
> Walkmans to Ipods, etc...?

And yet, there's always the reality of being able to drink up some  
music alone and unmonitored, adrift in a state of bliss one might  
never conjure up in more public settings. That exaggerated perspective  
of Doc's "Ear Speaker" arrangement is brought to its aesthetic peak in  
high-end headgear like the Stax Earspeakers:

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1189/sr404un5.jpg

The music thing in Inherent Vice is not all bad, though the scene's  
motion away from free, public and groovy seems to devolve  into  
something that's inherently entropic, like the soundtrack to "The Big  
Bounce." But canned music at its best can still take you to the  
nearest faraway place:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usuu-xu75dI

And Doc's Vibrasonic still manages to pump out some pretty crazy tunes— 
though there's a very high weirdness level in the mix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emlJKhLZOh8