ART » THE BIBLE PROJECT
It's the Bible...
Someone suggested that it can't all be about music. I'm not sure what they meant cause each time I close my eyes miscellaneous objects in the room start vibrating harmonically and I think that perhaps a lot of it can be about music.
IN 2010 THe Cad Factory is hoping to undertake a mammoth project. It goes something like this:
We wish to record the entire Bible being read (the hotel drawer Gideon's Bible).
Once the ENTIRE thing has been recorded we will cut it up into three and a half minute segments and then place them on top of each other, so what you will be left with is the entire Bible being read in three and a half minutes; hundreds of voices rambling on top of each other. It will go beyond vocabulary, beyond anything decipherable as the human voice.
An auditory cacophony.
There will also be a three second version. A direct Bible injection.
Think about it for a minute.
Why three and a half minutes? I once heard somewhere that this was the perfect pop song length.
Why the Gideon's Bible? In a world where Bibles are placed in hotel room drawers for travelers to read (or tear pages from, or set on fire) , and whole ideologies and struggles are nestled on the foundation of something that people barely have any understanding of at all, could an incomprehensible shortened version have just as much meaning?
Could a three and a half minute version of thousands of voices talking over each other fit into an ad break on telly?
Why the Bible? In the words of Ron Rude:
Is it that a compression of the Standard Bible, the only scriptural compression that the limited vision of Western sensibilities could understand. If compressed into an inane babble, could it hope to be more meaningful, or for that matter, more meaningless than the full blown epic? Is this double irony the actual intended purport of the project?
The Bible has been chosen as the first of many books to undergo this treatment.
What will the end product sound like? Three and a half minutes of inane, insane babble. Talking in tongues? Listen to it with the lights out.
More information as this all unfolds........
