Friday, November 21, 2008

The Listening Habits of Superheroes:

NAME: Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt)
BORN: 1939
POWERS: Super intelligence and discipline, exceptional hand-to-hand combat skills.
MEMBER: Crimebusters
APPEARS: Watchmen

From "After the Masquerade: Superstyle and the art of humanoid watching" from Nova Express, July 12, 1975
NOVA: Changing the subject entirely, do you listen to much music? I wondered what your tastes might be, as a superhero...

VEIDT: I like electronic music. That's a very superhero-ey thing to like, I suppose, isn't it? I like avant-garde music in general. Cage, Stockhausen, Penderecki, Andrew Lang, Pierre Henry. Terry Riley is very good. Oh, and I've heard some interesting new music from Jamaica...a sort of hybrid between electronic music and reggae. It's a fascinating study in the new musical forms generated when a largely pre-technological culture is given access to modern recording techniques wihtout the technological preconceptions that we've allowed to accumulate, limiting our vision. It's called dub music.

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