The musician's phone line carried a banned song and forced a crowd to hear it

Dangerous Ideas - Thinkers Who Paid · Sep 4, 2026 · 23m

The musician's phone line carried a banned song and forced a crowd to hear it

In March of 2010, a crowd in Brooklyn watched a musician perform live—except the musician was not in the room, and could not be. A government had ruled that this person's music should not exist in public, so the sound traveled in through a phone line while a collaborator stood on stage translating it into something the audience could hear and feel. Who builds a room like that, and why does he spend thirty years arguing that silence is never really safe?

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