The synth star of the 80s wants to make avant garde art accessible to all – and says Britain shouldn’t be embarrassed about creativity
Ever wondered which particular sounds make Ludwigsburg in Germany, special? Or, for that matter, how the trendy Tietgenkollegiet student accommodation block in Copenhagen really ticks? Perhaps on a visit to the eccentric village of Portmeirion in Wales you have been unsettled by noises that slid out from between the buildings made famous by the 1960s television thriller The Prisoner.
Strange to say, but all these remote aural disturbances emanate from one place: the mind of the bloke from the Human League and Heaven 17. Martyn Ware, crown prince of the British synthesiser sound of the 1980s, has adopted the guise of an avant garde artist in his middle age. And this time there is no trace of subversive pretension, for there is nothing at all embarrassing, Ware argues, about being artistic – and Britain should wake up and realise that.
Continue reading...by Vanessa Thorpe via Electronic music | The Guardian
