Music Banter - A certain Flaming Lips album...?

Look on the bright side

At least it's not as complicated as this to set up..

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Rumours first surfaced of some strange happenings in Oklahoma City during the late summer/early Autumn of 1996. Following the departure of Ronald Jones, Wayne Coyne had turned his hand to new sonic endeavours. Wayne had always wanted to experiment with multiple sound source recorded music, so he began to organise some little sound experiments. It began with a few tape recorders in the back room, and then evolved into getting 10 of his friends cars together to play yet more adventurous compositions before Wayne decided to go the whole hog and sit in that back room creating 40 tapes that would play together. The final result was eventually dubbed the 'Flaming Lips Parking Lot Experiment'. 40 cars were arranged to form a kind of wholly unusual soundsystem in a covered car parking space, and were then used to play out a strange, fluid 20 minute sound composition. Perhaps the best way to describe the actual sound that came from that kind of surreal orchestra is as being some how extra real. A sound so fluid and full that it was almost a tangible presence in the air...

Several instances of The Parking Lot Experiments followed during 1996 and 1997, as the band played several different compositions of music and found sound, using the tape decks from 30 to 40 cars carefully arranged in various parking lots around the US. Aside from a brief resurrection using car CD players at the Roskilde Festival in 1999,