Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:34:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Posse <ucsdposse@yahoo.com>
To: eslavetATucsd.edu
***POSSE*** Pissed Off Students for Silence while Eating
UCSD STUDENTS TO PROTEST "AMBIENT" "MUSIC" PROJECT
AUDIO TERRORISM MUST BE STOPPED IMMEDIATELY-- STUDENT TRANQUILITY AT STAKE
WHERE: PRICE CENTER FOOD COURT, UCSD WHEN: 1PM, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12
WHO: POSSE (PISSED OFF STUDENTS for SILENCE while EATING)
Students will demonstrate against the "art" at the Price Center Food Court on Thursday November 12. In defiance of an "artwork" that imports the distracting sounds of traffic noises into a formerly peaceful student eating area, students will march, will attempt to overwhelm the traffic noises with 93.3 fm and will call for a moment of silence. While the element of surprise is crucial to the demonstration, there is evidence that students will demand a Taco Bell mini-restaurant to be added to the food court.
"Slavet's audio terrorism has gone far enough," says John Zee, Earth Studies fourth year. "This food court was constructed to remove students from the bustling freeways of life. Now a soi-dissant ambient sound artist has decided that I have to choke down my meatball sub to the strains of a truck backfiring."
Posse leaders say that the time has come for UCSD students to determine their own aural destiny. "In our protest, we will do two things, maybe three. First, we will play 93.3 FM from a "boom-box," to connot the kind of environment that we think appropriate for the Price Center. Second, we will call for an immediate moment of silence, to shock students into interrogating their own aural space, the sounds we make when we chew, the gentle fizz of soda pop," Josh Kay, an undeclared third year.
"You want "ambient sound??" asks Zee. "You've got it baby."