There's nothing in this world which could prevent human beings from collecting and displaying the bits and pieces of their existence on Mother Earth. The species "homo sapiens" seems to be addicted to present its collections of whatever kind (Susan Sontag has written a nice novel about this topic called "The Volcanco Lover" - don't ask why she chose that title, because the book is about collecting, oooh, and what a book it is.)
Once people set up a museum, they set out to strangle the living units so that everybody can visit the corpses. Let's face it, a museum is for all of the ancient things and cultures and painters and writers and you-know-what, but is it the adequate location for contemporary rock-music? Have we grown so old that we don't realize we're dead? A museum for rock music?
The web-site of the Experience Music Project, reports about a museum to be established in Seattle sometime in the summer of 2000. The main sponsor is Paul Allen, who once was with Willy Gates programming DOS and/or Windows. Anyway, Paul Allen spends a lot of money to set up this museum which is spectacular, to say the least.
The architecture of the building in itself is pure rock-music. Look at it and be amazed. The content, of course, is even more spectacular, as it offers access to roughly 80,000 items (yep, you read it well: eighty thousand) ranging from guitars to lyrics, from stage costumes to song sheets, and so on. Paul Allen is a collector.
The museum will provide a feast for the gourmet of rock music. It offers multimedia facilities for those who have the high-end components of current computer technology. Some of the stuff on the web site looks great - virtually, of course. It also satisfies the visual freaks of web-surfers and it certainly provides enough stuff for everybody who wants to know more about this cultural and economic phenomenon called "rock music".
Once people set up a museum, they set out to strangle the living units so that everybody can visit the corpses. Let's face it, a museum is for all of the ancient things and cultures and painters and writers and you-know-what, but is it the adequate location for contemporary rock-music? Have we grown so old that we don't realize we're dead? A museum for rock music?
The web-site of the Experience Music Project, reports about a museum to be established in Seattle sometime in the summer of 2000. The main sponsor is Paul Allen, who once was with Willy Gates programming DOS and/or Windows. Anyway, Paul Allen spends a lot of money to set up this museum which is spectacular, to say the least.
The architecture of the building in itself is pure rock-music. Look at it and be amazed. The content, of course, is even more spectacular, as it offers access to roughly 80,000 items (yep, you read it well: eighty thousand) ranging from guitars to lyrics, from stage costumes to song sheets, and so on. Paul Allen is a collector.
The museum will provide a feast for the gourmet of rock music. It offers multimedia facilities for those who have the high-end components of current computer technology. Some of the stuff on the web site looks great - virtually, of course. It also satisfies the visual freaks of web-surfers and it certainly provides enough stuff for everybody who wants to know more about this cultural and economic phenomenon called "rock music".
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