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No idea what'll happen. No preparation either. I'll stay home and be
asleep by 11PM on New Years eve (like always) . Bears are morning animals.
I was going to fly into Chicago and go to the Chicago/Tampa game on Jan. 2
but since they're predicting air problems - I'll see it at a bar instead.
- lk: (audiochrom)
Y2K - I've come to believe that the Y2K thing is really overrated in every
way. This doesn't mean that nothing will happen, as it seems it will be a
bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. There's enough people out there that
want doomsday and will probably do everything they can to bring it about. I
believe that these people who want this sort of crisis will be sorely
disappointed come Jan. 1st, 2000. I think, that, if anything, there will
more minor economic problems than anything else. A lot of countries that
make up the World Trade Organization are completely unprepared for these
kind of computer glitches. These are glitches, though, that can disrupt
trade and international commerce, but probably not the power grid,
communications, and ATMs. Other than plans to stay away from large cities
on New Year's eve and day, there's not much else I've done. I've lived in
Chicago many years and saw people riot on a large scale over the Bulls
winning a championship. I would not like to see what people could do,
should they think that western civilization is coming to a grinding halt. A
lot of people in these areas are looking for any excuse to riot. "Y2K"
should be a big excuse, but not much besides that....
- Vir Unis: ambient/electronic artist
I don't care about it so much.
- Akifumi Nakajima: Aube
I am in the wait and see mode but you won't find me at at any of the ground
zero gathering spots which is always been the case for me at any new year.
Have I done anything to "prepare" for the results? Created the Meditations for the Millennium with Vidna Obmana as an offering
and sanctuary from the hype.
- Steve Roach: Soundquest Music
Power Failures, etc. nothing major, but China, Russia, and
other places....? Maybe the stockmarket will crash?
Remember to store food for a week or so, lots of good alcohol, good humor
and friends, do not fly or use trains for a few days... ;-)
- Anthony Asher Wright: ambient Australian
I haven't prepared for it in any respect. I use an
Apple Mac, so I'm o.k. on that front, but I don't know how all of the other
electronics will react. Should be fun. Also, I will definitely NOT be travelling over the
midnight zone!
- Andrew Lagowski: noise programmer
I didn't do anything yet for the millennium problem and I really don't think
it's going to be that a big drama for any house application, at least I hope
so. I've the feeling it has been overhyped in order to increase the sales on
new software applications and related programms.
But with the help of my webmaster Patrick, we'll definitely look into this
matter.
- Vidna Obmana: ambient/electronic artist
Who knows... but I've already stocked my closets with extra comic books
and candy... er... water and batteries... er... what was the
question...?
- M. Bentley: the foundry
I think that the whole Y2K thing will be comparable to the Harmonic
Convergence thing in the mid '80's- a lot of hype, but nothing major
happens. What I'm REALLY hoping for is that musicians and record companies
will stop using this whole "music for the new millenium" marketing angle to
promote their releases!
- Jeff Pearce: ambient guitarist
I tend to find the so-called Y2K problem more interesting as a cultural
phenomenon that as a technological crisis. To me, those who consider
themselves level-headed scientific materialists devoid of superstition have
nevertheless elevated an annoying oversight in programming to the fearsome
status of a secular apocalypse, showing the same collective need for a
shared gloomy eschatology at this millennial moment as have the followers of
an number of (other) religions.
To that extent I find Y2K culture irrational and pseudoscientific, marketing fear as the toxic byproduct of uneducated speculation, yet whereas religions at least have mythological
frameworks into which to fit such ruminations our materialist culture has
none. Instead, we have the rather comical spectre of a Nostradamus with an
honorary PhD, proffered no doubt by a non-accredited web-based university.
Here of course when people get frightened of something they only pretend to
understand, they tend to grow selfish and aggressive, making the real Y2K
bug not one of bitcounts in date programming but rather one of unreflective
emotions and misguidedly faithful faithlessness.
To prepare for This bug?
Duck and cover, I suppose. And it is one of the great conceits of any age
to expect the world to end in its own time.
- Thermal: Boxman (hako otoko) label
Nothing because I am not interested in saving musical file.
After I complete track, I don't care it is lost..
- Katsuya Hironaka: electronician
As we (myself and my computer operator Mike Webster) are Mac based so we
have no fears of Y2K. Perhaps my fear of fanatics, cult afficiandos and Millenium lunatics is
greater than any problems that Y2K might create. I am both fascinated and
saddened by the fact that we are now being totally driven by time; any Y2K
problems are/will be linked to this obsession and are symptomatic of a
culture which is basically going too fast. Maybe Y2K will make us realise
that we shouild slow down, take time to consider ideas, things, the world in
a more contemplative way.
- Russell Mills/UNDARK: Artist, designer, sculptor of sound, creator of multi-media installations,
stage sets; thinker, reader, walker, father, husband, friend.
I should think the effects will be minimal, it's only another year. It's not
even 2000 years of Jesus Christ, if his birthday is Dec 25th , he'd be 2000
on Dec 25th 2001. Perhaps some religious nutters might kill themselves. Good riddance, I say.
I haven't even got the booze in yet.
- Nigel Ayers: of Nocturnal Emissions
The effects will most likely be minimal for me at least Perhaps if all who read this would turn off all their electrical devices at 11:55pm on 12/31/99, light a few candles and envision a more enlightened, peaceful 21st century, we could begin to create our own
destiny.
- Richard Bone: ambient/ electronic artist
Oh I'm not expecting too much to happen, at least how the media has
hyped it. Most people seem to think that at the stroke of midnight
everything will either fail or be fine, well that's really not the
case. You see what really makes Y2K a big problem is no one really
knows if or when any problems will occur, they can occur at anytime
starting 12:00 am January 2000. A computer may run fine for six
months and then all of a sudden it realizes it has a date conflict
and crashes. We may see periodic system problems over the next few
years, but I don't think anything will happen that may cause any
major disturbances.
What will I be doing come the new year? I'm planning a night at home,
I'll be hunkered down (with my Y2K friendly macintosh) in my studio
bunker working on my next CD.
- Loren Nerell: Ethno-musicologist
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