The new moon, Tuesday 17 February, sees the release of the Dark-Side Mix of Put the Bucket Down.
The Dark-Side Mix is by Tchad Blake.
I’m working on a show with the brain as the central core and there are a number of songs, some on i/o and some on o\i, that will be part of that project and this is one of those…
I think it must be about 40 years ago Stephen R Johnson, the brilliant director of the Sledgehammer video, introduced me, when I was on tour, to an American woman called Mary Lou Jepsen who was in Berlin at the time. She, at that point, was trying to project images onto the moon and it looked as if Coca-Cola were probably going to be the only people who might be wealthy and crazy enough to to fund it. It didn’t come to fruition but then we didn’t get images projected onto the moon brought to you by Coca-Cola so maybe that’s a blessing in disguise, anyway, she went on an illustrious career.
I probably reconnected with her at TED and she came up to me and said you know I’m looking at things that will read thoughts and there’s the potential also to write thoughts. I became very fascinated with the idea of the brain / computer interface and what consequences that might bring to the world. This is one of the reasons that the brain show came up so that people will have a chance to see some of the realisation of these ideas, see how they feel about it and where we should be leading things.
I’m interested in the human rights implications, consequences obviously the danger is that you can either imprint ideas into people’s heads or take them out, so there’s no privacy or secrecy, which is dangerous for anyone who’s active against the authoritarian state, wherever that is…