Three sound systems for a crisis

Catholicism of Mary Help of Christians Parish Church and Marihuana pro-legalization demonstration sized each other up yesterday in Vienna. The quintessential commerce street in the old roman town (Vienna was Vindobona) has in its middle part a little square with a church and a sculpture of musician with violin.
Three sound-systems were brought yesterday by the pro-legalization demonstration, carried by trailer trucks two of them and one in a big van. I don't know how many watts did they have but they drove it hard. Music was also good. They crossed Vienna with such a piece of party.
Scouting the police deployment upstream the head of the demo I came up to the little square with in front of the parish church. A local family band was playing fundamentalist christian music. The minor child-girl carried a huge portrait in black and white with the child-girl's face of some distant martyrdom. All of them smiled and sang while one of the two priest with long skirted cassock played trumpet!

The music surprised me. They were really good. The lyrics was something like "Lord's Fire, fall over us!". The third surprise was asking myself about their sound system. I could not see any sound board, but just two pretty little speakers, around 50x50x50 cms, in a single couple at the top of a thin tall tripod. With that and with wireless microphones they succeeded in filling of clean sound the whole little square.

My own emotional mess was oscillating between the rip of foreseeing how the stoner trucks would run over that bubble of paleofamiliarity, and my wish of giving them the next 15th Oct demo flyers. The true is that they didn't allow themselves. They sang and smiled without pause in the convince manner of those that will get martyred.

I saw one day before the third sound system I want to talk about. In Vienna there's a place that was once snapshotted by cinematography. Orson Welles filmed in "The third man" the early post-war amusement park. "Prater" remains there and on it was celebrated the "Racism-Free-Zone". Green and communist militancy and the solidarity groups deployed a tinny set-up, specially compared with the size of the esplanade. A crossroad of trains and cars, and of course of pedestrians. The voicing of the event had a huge sound board backwards of a little dais used as stage. In it there were "debates" and miscellaneous austrian musics. The official migrant presence were two late somali teenagers integrated in the austrian society. The sound system had two from middle size to small (depending on comparing with what) speakers of around 100x60x50 cms. And even that it was insufficient. The sound was not filling the space, since it was mainly open. And the debate could only be followed if you were at the same core.

My conclusions to the in two weeks demonstration:

Either to be in the same core, to have a church behind, or to manage to get the trucks.