Art & Music Explored Via Radio

A new radio series entitled the Subway Sect is airing on London’s art/experimental station, Resonance FM, which “aim[s] to explore the complex relationship between art and music and take the form of a series of conversations between artists, musicians, writers, designers, djs and music video directors.”

Sort of like Interview Magazine for the radio, last week’s episode featured designer Peter Saville and critic Dan Fox:

On the distinctions between graphic design and contemporary fine art

Peter Saville: …and this is the point in which fine art and late 20th century applied art diverge completely. In the applied arts we learn to please people, we learn strategies of pleasing others. Pleasing yourself or expressing yourself, the confessing self, is not pertinent within the applied arts. It might be terribly interesting but it’s not exactly what we’re looking for. The prevailing condition within the applied arts is also to make things look good. Things that look good tend to be familiar – things tend not to look good until we are to some extent familiar with them. We see this in the culture of design all the time, what was radical 20 years ago and received with shock, we now see as kind of easy on the eye.

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