The Location: Strawberry Fields, June 2006. A reinvigoration of a naturalistic setting as a Memorial to John Lennon within New York City’s Central Park by Yoko Ono.
The Soundman in the Field is seen to employ only a modest piece of equipment: an MP3 recording device. The background interference of Magical Mystery Tour by an unseen group of musicians is a specific reminder that the site‘s existence is the result of a void. Play Video: web - iPod (right click to download)


"The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground - congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. This causes acute anxiety among artists, in so far as they challenge, compete, and fight for the spoiled ideals of lost situations."
Robert Smithson (1972)

In late 1967 the Beatles launched the Apple organization as a record label and management company with a boutique.
The Apple boutique closes July 31st 1968 after a liquidation sale in which the remaining stock is given away.

INTERVIEWER: " What is Apple John?"

LENNON: "It's a company we're setting up involving records, films, electronics and manufacturing."

McCARTNEY: "It's just trying to mix business with enjoyment. All the profits wont go into our pockets; it'll go to help people, but not like a charity."

LENNON: "Like if somebody wants to make a film and they get shown into the wastepaper bin. Nothing ever happens and they go around and they make an underground one and lots of people never see it. We hope to make a thing that's free where people can come and do and record and not have to ask, 'Can we have another mike in the studio, because we haven't had a hit yet?'"

-PRESS CONFERENCE
(Quoted from Imagine John Lennon by Andrew Solt and Sam Egan, MacMillan NY 1988)