Five great techniques of dance music
Sunday, February 2nd, 2003Jeff Noon usually talks about finding literary equivalents for the five great techniques of dance music: remixing, dub, scratching, sampling and segueing.
His latest novel, Falling out of cars, starts out as straight narrative: a woman on the road with strangers, writing in an oldfashioned notebook. She tries to remember, but the whole world has a disease that slowly erases memories. This is a dark, uncomfortable book.
1. People die every day. Lots of people. Death is common, it’s not unusual.