Modern art and the vuvuzela drone. Discuss.

If you look at a Jackson Pollock for long enough you see all sorts of patterns and relationships between the colours and the lines and the densities that were not there before. Patterns that were not there the last time you looked, it’s like a new painting every time you look at it, and the longer you look the richer the experience. And the artist knows this and it’s done deliberately to set up a kind of collaboration between artist and viewer, that they have to trust each other, that they are equal partners in creating something new every time you look at the painting. It’s what genius is.


And it’s the same with the vuvuzela drone. It’s full of different patterns and harmonics (harmonics is the sound of two or more notes together - is that right, musical readers?), that only make sense if you listen to them carefully, there’s always a new sound, a new relationship being set up, and then another and then yet more, it’s a cumulative effect. And this is all done immediately by ten thousand people together not by one artist over time like the painter; yet the effect is the same: it’s a collaboration between players and listeners, except it’s instant and for that moment.

I’ve finished now but I could easily start again