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Also known as Peter-David Smith, Cyborg Jazz and Various Female Artists.

Imagine sound art as a landscape. Music is one location in that landscape. Speculativism explores the neighbouring locations on that landscape, next to music, around music, near or far in relation to music.

All the tracks are an art which has some relation to music but not necessarily conforming to any of the rules usually imposed upon music. Here you will find noise, comedy, Dada, experimentation and satire.

Speculativism is Peter-David Smith, a UK-based artist. In the 1960s he went to a rotten, cheap nasty comprehensive school where they didn’t allow the kids to touch musical instruments (in order to prevent breakage) and where they didn’t teach music (in order to prevent kids from forming rock and roll bands) - thus creating a situation where Peter-David was forced to the path of autodidacticism and a strange relationship with music, soundart and noise.

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I went to a really rotten school which would not allow us to touch musical instruments in case we broke them. This was in the 1960s and the teacher was paranoid about artists like The Who and Jimi Hendrix smashing their instruments on stage. She thought we were all vandals and morons. Consequently I grew up without the opportunity to find out whether I had any aptitude for music or not. After a while I began making noises with found objects, then with a guitar, plastic recorder and drumsticks.
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  • Hoxerijo

    Ha! you're mainstream as well now! :D

    8 Jun 2012 Reply

  • speculativism

    I heartily congratulate myself on reaching 2,000 listeners today! Clearly, a lot of people like weird noises, subversive ideas, deconstructed musical genres and desynchronised anti-rhythms! Hooray for us!!

    30 May 2012 Reply

  • viciadoemarroz

    I´m everyday more impressed by Speculativism´s music! And there´re so many albums of him to discover!

    29 Nov 2011 Reply

  • Borealiscape

    great musician

    21 Aug 2011 Reply

  • silverlage

    I just realized that when I first started listening to you, I tagged you at 33. You are now at 1,115. I still have a long way to go to listen to all of your music. What a ride and a great journey. I am so looking forward to our collaboration.

    8 Jan 2011 Reply

  • MorrisTheFucker

    crap is ok. Shite is also a main factor of human society and cultural development.

    12 Dec 2010 Reply

  • speculativism

    Well, I got the translation of "che schifezza" from google but the "maronna" part google doesn't have. I can only guess that it means something like "It's moronic that crap". (And I have to say, in my defence, that I never claimed it wasn't moronic crap)

    12 Dec 2010 Reply

  • MorrisTheFucker

    @Niklando: I'm sure Speculativism would appreciate your take on the subject (though the translation would obviously cause it to lose that dialectal incisiveness)

    11 Dec 2010 Reply

  • Niklando

    toccata and fugue in blue....maronna che schifezza!

    11 Dec 2010 Reply

  • MorrisTheFucker

    Congrats!

    4 Dec 2010 Reply

  • speculativism

    Wow! Passed the 1,000 listeners mark! I'm flabbergasted!

    27 Nov 2010 Reply

  • MilesBachman

    no, wtf is :) or :@, never :| more wtf music please.

    10 Aug 2010 Reply

  • dougsharp

    tons o' fun! keep vibrating the air, Mr. Spec.

    6 Aug 2010 Reply

  • MorrisTheFucker

    The current picture is fantastic.

    7 Jun 2010 Reply

  • wildwoodflwr

    Cool Ellington...been wanting to so some myself...

    19 May 2010 Reply

  • AdeltrautMeier

    You've been linked to the free artists group! Check out my new film on vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/10857036 - best regards David Elsener

    12 Apr 2010 Reply

  • musinum

    Congratulations on achieving 1000 plays and 200 listeners! You have now graduated from Chef Musinum and you connection will be moved to Chez musinum!

    20 Sep 2009 Reply

  • speculativism

    Qapla' BevisBoy!

    14 Apr 2009 Reply

  • silverlage

    Consider joining under 100 listeners We support artists that have a low amount of listeners and deserve more.

    4 Feb 2009 Reply

  • speculativism

    Yeah, I know, it sounds like a lot of tracks from that era but then goes all weird... The idea was to take something very familiar sounding and mess around with it.

    23 Jan 2009 Reply
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