From a piece today by Simon Sellars on the manner in which dystopian bard J.G. Ballard‘s worldview is suffused into contemporary sound (ballardian.com):
In recent times, Ballard’s influence on music seems to have waned although there is convergence with a cadre of sound artists who have magnified and critiqued the sonic footprint of the world’s cities and conurbations. Interact with any aspect of the Big City today, virtual or actual, and you will be enveloped with noise. When you pick up the handle of a petrol pump, an ad jingle plays.
