Music for Real Airports is a multimedia art project by musicians The Black Dog and interactive artists Human which is presented in art galleries. It is also a new album of music by the Black Dog. It is a response to the reality of occupying the semi-public space of an airport, and a contemporary reply to Brian Eno's work from the 70s.
Airports are important and revealing. They are dystopian microcosms of a possible future society. The necessity of safety requires that they be systems of human control which only elevate the stress of their transient occupiers. Airports' promise travel, exploration and excitement but endlessly break that promise with their stale, tedious pressure. They are intense and overwhelming environments. Anyone who travels by air will have been puzzled by the way that airports tend to reduce us to a worthless pink blobs of flesh, the human equivalent of the bags on the conveyor belt. Yet despite the frustration of being in that atmosphere, some of the best of human nature is revealed, alongside some of the very worst. Airports make for great "people watching".
The artistic intent of Music for Real Airports is therefore to examine the nature of airports and to explore what they could be. We argue that, considering their importance in our lives, airports have not been sufficiently represented by artists. Perhaps the best known artistic response to airports is Brian Eno's Music for Airports, whose purpose seems to be largely elegiac, even if conceived as an antidote to the stress of plane delays. Our performances, events and installations are a more accurate update to Eno's work, and a to a degree, a riposte. Some members of The Black Dog were disappointed by Eno's treatment of the subject in 1978 and have been considering how to produce a more meaningful response ever since.
Music for Real Airports はアートギャラリーで公開される、音楽の The Black Dog と双方向的芸術家集団の Human によるマルチメディア型のアートプロジェクトだ。それは The Black Dog のニューアルバムでもある。人によって占められた空港の半公共空間に対する反応であると同時に、70年代の Brian Eno の作品に対する現代の返答である。
Music for Real Airports の芸術的意図は従って空港の本質を吟味し、その可能性を探ることにある。わたしたちの生活の中でのそれらの重要性を考慮すると、空港はアーティストたちによって十分に表現されているとは言えない。おそらく、空港に対するアートによる最も有名な反応は Brian Eno の Music for Airports であり、その目的は仮に航空機遅延によるストレスへの解毒薬であると解釈したとしても、ほとんど哀愁を帯びている。われわれの演奏、イベント、インスタレーションはEno作品に対するより的確な最新版であり、ひとつの反論である。The Black Dog のメンバーの数人は、この主題に対する1978年の Eno の処置に失望し、それ以来どのようにしてもっと意味のあるレスポンスを創り出すか、考え続けてきたのだった。