Word: muzak
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...Fluxus conceptual art reconstructions. The installations are the most eye-catching. For the first time since it was shown in New York in 1964, American Supermarket, a collaboration by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and others, has been remade, complete with meat, cheese and fruit counters, neon signs and chirpy muzak. For visitors, the Saturday morning trip to the supermarket will never feel the same. - By Kate Noble A BreathOf Stale Air Fashion has so much to love - the glamour, the beauty, the clothes. And so much to hate - the glamour, the beauty, the clothes. It's not surprising that...
...Jam” verges on techno, with its driving samples and “Better, faster, stronger/ We have the technology” sloganeering. The Baldwins then swerve into the appropriately kitschily titled “Lava lamp,” which playfully flirts with the sound of elevator muzak in its psychedelic haze, as does “Somebody Else’s Favorite Song...
...bomb of seismic proportions on the Boston massive, I was finding such a thing increasingly unlikely. The atmosphere was a let-down—instead of a noisy club filling to capacity, I found several handfuls of bored people idly listening to the horrid strain of Latin-lite fusion muzak filtering through the sound system. It was another half hour before the lights finally dimmed...
...indeterminate future, you stand in a crowd in the Great Glass Elevator. Like all elevators, this one comes wired for sound—soulless, slick, electronic muzak. Yet something is not quite right—rather than being the irritatingly-pacifying background-stuff, it keeps sneaking into your frontal lobes with growls of distortion, electronic shrieks and incendiary little licks. As the elevator gathers pace, your colleagues strip off their suit-jackets and ties, and the elevator becomes a sky-rocketing disco?...
...noon, and we were the only ones there. By now, knowledge of the attack was general in Mount Kisco and everyone was offering greetings that began with, "Awful," or "What a day" or "Simply inconceivable." Dr. Cronenberg had the radio on, as was usual, but it offered news, not Muzak. As Caroline sat patiently through her checkup, assistants kept giving the doctor updates on news from southern Manhattan. "Pace has been let out," one said finally. Pace University was mere blocks from ground zero, and Dr. Cronenberg's son, Jeff, was a student there. So the doctor was monitoring this...